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+XZ Utils Installation
+=====================
+
+    0. Preface
+    1. Supported platforms
+       1.1. Compilers
+       1.2. Platform-specific notes
+            1.2.1. Darwin (Mac OS X)
+            1.2.2. Tru64
+            1.2.3. Windows
+            1.2.4. DOS
+            1.2.5. OS/2
+       1.3. Adding support for new platforms
+    2. configure options
+    3. xzgrep and other scripts
+       3.1. Dependencies
+       3.2. PATH
+    4. Troubleshooting
+       4.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
+       4.1. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
+       4.2. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
+
+
+0. Preface
+----------
+
+    If you aren't familiar with building packages that use GNU Autotools,
+    see the file INSTALL.generic for generic instructions before reading
+    further.
+
+    If you are going to build a package for distribution, see also the
+    file PACKAGERS. It contains information that should help making the
+    binary packages as good as possible, but the information isn't very
+    interesting to those making local builds for private use or for use
+    in special situations like embedded systems.
+
+
+1. Supported platforms
+----------------------
+
+    XZ Utils are developed on GNU/Linux, but they should work on many
+    POSIX-like operating systems like *BSDs and Solaris, and even on
+    a few non-POSIX operating systems.
+
+
+1.1. Compilers
+
+    A C99 compiler is required to compile XZ Utils. If you use GCC, you
+    need at least version 3.x.x. GCC version 2.xx.x doesn't support some
+    C99 features used in XZ Utils source code, thus GCC 2 won't compile
+    XZ Utils.
+
+    XZ Utils takes advantage of some GNU C extensions when building
+    with GCC. Because these extensions are used only when building
+    with GCC, it should be possible to use any C99 compiler.
+
+
+1.2. Platform-specific notes
+
+1.2.1. Darwin (Mac OS X)
+
+    You may need --disable-assembler if building universal binaries on
+    Darwin. This is because different files are built when assembler is
+    enabled, and there's no way to make it work with universal build.
+    If you want to keep the assembler code, consider building one
+    architecture at a time, and then combining the results to create
+    universal binaries (see lipo(1)).
+
+
+1.2.2. Tru64
+
+    If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to
+    configure), it is possible that the configure script will complain
+    that no C99 compiler was found even when the native compiler supports
+    C99. You can safely override the test for C99 compiler by passing
+    ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as the argument to the configure script.
+
+
+1.2.3. Windows
+
+    Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW and Cygwin.
+    If the Autotools based build gives you trouble with MinGW, you may
+    want try the alternative method found from the "windows" directory.
+
+    MSVC doesn't support C99, thus it is not possible to use MSVC to
+    compile XZ Utils. However, it is possible to use liblzma.dll from
+    MSVC once liblzma.dll has been built with MinGW. The required
+    import library for MSVC can be created from liblzma.def using the
+    "lib" command shipped in MSVC:
+
+        lib /def:liblzma.def /out:liblzma.lib /machine:ix86
+
+    On x86-64, the /machine argument has to naturally be changed:
+
+        lib /def:liblzma.def /out:liblzma.lib /machine:x64
+
+
+1.2.4. DOS
+
+    There is an experimental Makefile in the "dos" directory to build
+    XZ Utils on DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is
+    needed.
+
+    GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS.
+
+
+1.2.5. OS/2
+
+    You will need to pass --disable-assembler to configure when building
+    on OS/2.
+
+
+1.3. Adding support for new platforms
+
+    If you have written patches to make XZ Utils to work on previously
+    unsupported platform, please send the patches to me! I will consider
+    including them to the official version. It's nice to minimize the
+    need of third-party patching.
+
+    One exception: Don't request or send patches to change the whole
+    source package to C89. I find C99 substantially nicer to write and
+    maintain. However, the public library headers must be in C89 to
+    avoid frustrating those who maintain programs, which are strictly
+    in C89 or C++.
+
+
+2. configure options
+--------------------
+
+    In most cases, the defaults are what you want. Most of the options
+    below are useful only when building a size-optimized version of
+    liblzma or command line tools.
+
+    --enable-encoders=LIST
+    --disable-encoders
+                Specify a comma-separated LIST of filter encoders to
+                build. See "./configure --help" for exact list of
+                available filter encoders. The default is to build all
+                supported encoders.
+
+                If LIST is empty or --disable-encoders is used, no filter
+                encoders will be built and also the code shared between
+                encoders will be omitted.
+
+                Disabling encoders will remove some symbols from the
+                liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when it
+                is known to not cause problems.
+
+    --enable-decoders=LIST
+    --disable-decoders
+                This is like --enable-encoders but for decoders. The
+                default is to build all supported decoders.
+
+    --enable-match-finders=LIST
+                liblzma includes two categories of match finders:
+                hash chains and binary trees. Hash chains (hc3 and hc4)
+                are quite fast but they don't provide the best compression
+                ratio. Binary trees (bt2, bt3 and bt4) give excellent
+                compression ratio, but they are slower and need more
+                memory than hash chains.
+
+                You need to enable at least one match finder to build the
+                LZMA1 or LZMA2 filter encoders. Usually hash chains are
+                used only in the fast mode, while binary trees are used to
+                when the best compression ratio is wanted.
+
+                The default is to build all the match finders if LZMA1
+                or LZMA2 filter encoders are being built.
+
+    --enable-checks=LIST
+                liblzma support multiple integrity checks. CRC32 is
+                mandatory, and cannot be omitted. See "./configure --help"
+                for exact list of available integrity check types.
+
+                liblzma and the command line tools can decompress files
+                which use unsupported integrity check type, but naturally
+                the file integrity cannot be verified in that case.
+
+                Disabling integrity checks may remove some symbols from
+                the liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when
+                it is known to not cause problems.
+
+    --disable-assembler
+                liblzma includes some assembler optimizations. Currently
+                there is only assembler code for CRC32 and CRC64 for
+                32-bit x86.
+
+                All the assembler code in liblzma is position-independent
+                code, which is suitable for use in shared libraries and
+                position-independent executables. So far only i386
+                instructions are used, but the code is optimized for i686
+                class CPUs. If you are compiling liblzma exclusively for
+                pre-i686 systems, you may want to disable the assembler
+                code.
+
+    --enable-unaligned-access
+                Allow liblzma to use unaligned memory access for 16-bit
+                and 32-bit loads and stores. This should be enabled only
+                when the hardware supports this, i.e. when unaligned
+                access is fast. Some operating system kernels emulate
+                unaligned access, which is extremely slow. This option
+                shouldn't be used on systems that rely on such emulation.
+
+                Unaligned access is enabled by default on x86, x86-64,
+                and big endian PowerPC.
+
+    --enable-small
+                Reduce the size of liblzma by selecting smaller but
+                semantically equivalent version of some functions, and
+                omit precomputed lookup tables. This option tends to
+                make liblzma slightly slower.
+
+                Note that while omitting the precomputed tables makes
+                liblzma smaller on disk, the tables are still needed at
+                run time, and need to be computed at startup. This also
+                means that the RAM holding the tables won't be shared
+                between applications linked against shared liblzma.
+
+    --disable-threads
+                Disable threading support. This makes some things
+                thread-unsafe, meaning that if multithreaded application
+                calls liblzma functions from more than one thread,
+                something bad may happen.
+
+                Use this option if threading support causes you trouble,
+                or if you know that you will use liblzma only from
+                single-threaded applications and want to avoid dependency
+                on libpthread.
+
+    --enable-dynamic
+                Link the command line tools against shared liblzma. The
+                default (and recommended way) is to link the command line
+                tools against static liblzma.
+
+                This option is mostly useful for packagers, if distro
+                policy requires linking against shared libaries. See the
+                file PACKAGERS for more information about pros and cons
+                of this option.
+
+    --enable-debug
+                This enables the assert() macro and possibly some other
+                run-time consistency checks. It makes the code slower, so
+                you normally don't want to have this enabled.
+
+    --enable-werror
+                If building with GCC, make all compiler warnings an error,
+                that abort the compilation. This may help catching bugs,
+                and should work on most systems. This has no effect on the
+                resulting binaries.
+
+
+3. xzgrep and other scripts
+---------------------------
+
+3.1. Dependencies
+
+    POSIX shell (sh) and bunch of other standard POSIX tools are required
+    to run the scripts. The configure script tries to find a POSIX
+    compliant sh, but if it fails, you can force the shell by passing
+    gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
+    script.
+
+    Some of the scripts require also mktemp. The original mktemp can be
+    found from <http://www.mktemp.org/>. On GNU, most will use the mktemp
+    program from GNU coreutils instead of the original implementation.
+    Both mktemp versions are fine for XZ Utils (and practically for
+    everything else too).
+
+
+3.2. PATH
+
+    The scripts assume that the required tools (standard POSIX utilities,
+    mktemp, and xz) are in PATH; the scripts don't set the PATH themselves.
+    Some people like this while some think this is a bug. Those in the
+    latter group can easily patch the scripts before running the configure
+    script by taking advantage of a placeholder line in the scripts.
+
+    For example, to make the scripts prefix /usr/bin:/bin to PATH:
+
+        perl -pi -e 's|^#SET_PATH.*$|PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:\$PATH|' \
+                src/scripts/xz*.in
+
+
+4. Troubleshooting
+------------------
+
+4.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
+
+    You need a C99 compiler to build XZ Utils. If the configure script
+    cannot find a C99 compiler and you think you have such a compiler
+    installed, set the compiler command by passing CC=/path/to/c99 as
+    an argument to the configure script.
+
+    If you get this error even when you think your compiler supports C99,
+    you can override the test by passing ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as an argument
+    to the configure script. The test for C99 compiler is not perfect (and
+    it is not as easy to make it perfect as it sounds), so sometimes this
+    may be needed. You will get a compile error if your compiler doesn't
+    support enough C99.
+
+
+4.1. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
+
+    xzgrep and other scripts need a shell that (roughly) conforms
+    to POSIX. The configure script tries to find such a shell. If
+    it fails, you can force the shell to be used by passing
+    gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
+    script.
+
+
+4.2. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
+
+    The easy fix is to pass --disable-assembler to the configure script.
+
+    The configure script determines if assembler code can be used by
+    looking at the configure triplet; there is currently no check if
+    the assembler code can actually actually be built. The x86 assembler
+    code should work on x86 GNU/Linux, *BSDs, Solaris, Darwin, MinGW,
+    Cygwin, and DJGPP. On other x86 systems, there may be problems and
+    the assembler code may need to be disabled with the configure option.
+
+    If you get this error when building for x86-64, you have specified or
+    the configure script has misguessed your architecture. Pass the
+    correct configure triplet using the --build=CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM option
+    (see INSTALL.generic).
+
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+Installation Instructions
+*************************
+
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005,
+2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
+unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
+
+Basic Installation
+==================
+
+   Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
+configure, build, and install this package.  The following
+more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
+instructions specific to this package.
+
+   The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
+various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
+those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
+It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
+definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
+you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a
+file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for
+debugging `configure').
+
+   It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'
+and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves
+the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring.  Caching is
+disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale
+cache files.
+
+   If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
+to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
+diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
+be considered for the next release.  If you are using the cache, and at
+some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you
+may remove or edit it.
+
+   The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create
+`configure' by a program called `autoconf'.  You need `configure.ac' if
+you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version
+of `autoconf'.
+
+The simplest way to compile this package is:
+
+  1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
+     `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
+
+     Running `configure' might take a while.  While running, it prints
+     some messages telling which features it is checking for.
+
+  2. Type `make' to compile the package.
+
+  3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
+     the package.
+
+  4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
+     documentation.
+
+  5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
+     source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
+     files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
+     a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is
+     also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
+     for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get
+     all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
+     with the distribution.
+
+  6. Often, you can also type `make uninstall' to remove the installed
+     files again.
+
+Compilers and Options
+=====================
+
+   Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
+the `configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help'
+for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
+
+   You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
+by setting variables in the command line or in the environment.  Here
+is an example:
+
+     ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix
+
+   *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
+
+Compiling For Multiple Architectures
+====================================
+
+   You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
+same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
+own directory.  To do this, you can use GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
+directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
+the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the
+source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
+
+   With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one
+architecture at a time in the source code directory.  After you have
+installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before
+reconfiguring for another architecture.
+
+   On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and
+executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or
+"universal" binaries--by specifying multiple `-arch' options to the
+compiler but only a single `-arch' option to the preprocessor.  Like
+this:
+
+     ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
+                 CXX="g++ -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
+                 CPP="gcc -E" CXXCPP="g++ -E"
+
+   This is not guaranteed to produce working output in all cases, you
+may have to build one architecture at a time and combine the results
+using the `lipo' tool if you have problems.
+
+Installation Names
+==================
+
+   By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
+`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc.  You
+can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
+`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
+
+   You can specify separate installation prefixes for
+architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
+pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
+PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
+
+   In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
+options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
+kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
+you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
+
+   If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
+with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
+option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
+
+Optional Features
+=================
+
+   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
+`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
+They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
+is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The
+`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
+package recognizes.
+
+   For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
+find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
+you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
+`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
+
+Particular systems
+==================
+
+   On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible.  If GNU
+CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in
+order to use an ANSI C compiler:
+
+     ./configure CC="cc -Ae -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500"
+
+and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX.
+
+   On OSF/1 a.k.a. Tru64, some versions of the default C compiler cannot
+parse its `<wchar.h>' header file.  The option `-nodtk' can be used as
+a workaround.  If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended
+to try
+
+     ./configure CC="cc"
+
+and if that doesn't work, try
+
+     ./configure CC="cc -nodtk"
+
+   On Solaris, don't put `/usr/ucb' early in your `PATH'.  This
+directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of
+these programs are available in `/usr/bin'.  So, if you need `/usr/ucb'
+in your `PATH', put it _after_ `/usr/bin'.
+
+   On Haiku, software installed for all users goes in `/boot/common',
+not `/usr/local'.  It is recommended to use the following options:
+
+     ./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+
+Specifying the System Type
+==========================
+
+   There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
+automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
+will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
+_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
+`--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system
+type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
+
+     CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
+
+where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
+
+     OS
+     KERNEL-OS
+
+   See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If
+`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
+need to know the machine type.
+
+   If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
+use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will
+produce code for.
+
+   If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
+platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
+"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
+eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
+
+Sharing Defaults
+================
+
+   If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
+you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
+default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
+`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
+`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the
+`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
+A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
+
+Defining Variables
+==================
+
+   Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
+environment passed to `configure'.  However, some packages may run
+configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
+variables may be lost.  In order to avoid this problem, you should set
+them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'.  For example:
+
+     ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
+
+causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
+overridden in the site shell script).
+
+Unfortunately, this technique does not work for `CONFIG_SHELL' due to
+an Autoconf bug.  Until the bug is fixed you can use this workaround:
+
+     CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
+
+`configure' Invocation
+======================
+
+   `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
+operates.
+
+`--help'
+`-h'
+     Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit.
+
+`--help=short'
+`--help=recursive'
+     Print a summary of the options unique to this package's
+     `configure', and exit.  The `short' variant lists options used
+     only in the top level, while the `recursive' variant lists options
+     also present in any nested packages.
+
+`--version'
+`-V'
+     Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
+     script, and exit.
+
+`--cache-file=FILE'
+     Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
+     traditionally `config.cache'.  FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
+     disable caching.
+
+`--config-cache'
+`-C'
+     Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
+
+`--quiet'
+`--silent'
+`-q'
+     Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To
+     suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
+     messages will still be shown).
+
+`--srcdir=DIR'
+     Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually
+     `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
+
+`--prefix=DIR'
+     Use DIR as the installation prefix.  *Note Installation Names::
+     for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning
+     the installation locations.
+
+`--no-create'
+`-n'
+     Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output
+     files.
+
+`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.  Run
+`configure --help' for more details.
+