bzip2 1.0.8

Name bzip2
Version 1.0.8
Summary Very high-quality data compression program
Description bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
Section console/utils
License bzip2-1.0.6 & GPL-3.0-or-later & Apache-2.0 & MS-PL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib
Homepage https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
Recipe file recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
Layer openembedded-core (rel-v2026.2 branch)
Inherits
  • autotools
  • gcc
  • gcc-native
  • ptest
  • siteinfo
  • update-alternatives
Dependencies
  • autoconf-native
  • automake-native
  • gcc-cross-i686
  • libtool-cross
  • libtool-native
  • virtual/compilerlibs
  • virtual/libc
  • virtual/update-alternatives
PACKAGECONFIG options
  • vardepvalue

Sources

https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz
git://sourceware.org/git/bzip2-tests.git

Patches

Patch Status
bzip2/0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch Submitted [bzip2-devel@sourceware.org]
bzip2/CVE-2026-42250.patch Backport [https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67]

Other branches

This recipe in other branches of openembedded-core:

Branch Recipe
rel-v2026.1 (AMD EDF 26.06 Release) bzip2 1.0.8
rel-v2026.2 (AMD EDF 26.11 Release) bzip2 1.0.8 (this recipe)