It seems that I missed a couple of tar commands in the patch: scripts/Makefile.package scripts/package/buildtar On 5/15/20 5:20 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:14 PM Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > commit 5054e88a7934d5ff5ec14231c8b8676161bb45fa > Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Mar 16 14:25:17 2015 -0700 > > gzip: make the GZIP env var obsolescent Other implementations can depend on this. pigz still parses GZIP env var: https://github.com/madler/pigz/blob/master/pigz.c#L4346 > > Some possible options I came up with: > > > [1] Use KGZIP for now, but BZIP2, XZ, etc. for the others. > > (Then, rename KGZIP to GZIP when the time comes) > > > [2] Do not take this patch > > The whole build process is parallelized > by 'make -j $(nproc)'. > > If you are still eager to use pigz instead gzip, > use a symbolic link or a wrapper shell script. > > $ ln -s /usr/bin/pigz /$HOME/bin/gzip > $ PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > [3] GZIP at frontend, KGZIP or _GZIP internally? Something like: $ cat Makefile GZIP=gzip override KGZIP=$(GZIP) # optional overrdide. Used to force GZIP value # in case: make KGZIP=test unexport GZIP export KGZIP default: @env | grep GZIP $ make GZIP=test KGZIP=test Thanks, Denis