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author | cillianderoiste <cillian.deroiste@gmail.com> | 2015-01-14 11:46:21 +0100 |
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committer | cillianderoiste <cillian.deroiste@gmail.com> | 2015-01-14 11:46:21 +0100 |
commit | 6e66d3df90ef533f3683bc8057a41504673023b7 (patch) | |
tree | 995171ae5fee854a4fbf7b55aaa5ba32f653547a | |
parent | b9cb0ce2cecbd1b5d90c174c57357bc87e71a6c4 (diff) | |
parent | 8257ed81c9cd54f8247759b5d754eea983aa1a43 (diff) |
Merge pull request #5752 from nckx/lz4
Add lz4: very fast lossless compression
-rw-r--r-- | pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix | 32 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix | 2 |
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..6f7cf5b987a42 --- /dev/null +++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +{ stdenv, fetchurl }: + +stdenv.mkDerivation rec { + # The r127 source still calls itself r126 everywhere, but I'm not going to + # patch over such silly cosmetic oversights in an official release. -- nckx + version = "127"; + name = "lz4-${version}"; + + src = fetchurl { + url = "https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4/archive/r${version}.tar.gz"; + sha256 = "0hvbbr07j4hfix4dn4xw4fsmkr5s02bj596fn0i15d1i49xby2aj"; + }; + + enableParallelBuilding = true; + + makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)"; + + meta = with stdenv.lib; { + description = "Extremely fast compression algorithm"; + longDescription = '' + Very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed + at 400 MB/s per core, with near-linear scalability for multi-threaded + applications. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in + multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on + multi-core systems. + ''; + homepage = https://code.google.com/p/lz4/; + license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl2Plus ]; + platforms = with platforms; linux; + maintainers = with maintainers; [ nckx ]; + }; +} diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix index 300db46e0fc79..4c0fd2b0b56bf 100644 --- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix +++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix @@ -1710,6 +1710,8 @@ let xz = callPackage ../tools/compression/xz { }; + lz4 = callPackage ../tools/compression/lz4 { }; + lzop = callPackage ../tools/compression/lzop { }; macchanger = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/macchanger { }; |