From 29b95d5d6665cedffa6a9d6d3d914f981e852182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:43:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update INSTALL about the dependencies of the scripts. --- INSTALL | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index d643693b..ee322891 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -424,11 +424,16 @@ XZ Utils Installation 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 . 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). + xzdiff (xzcmp/lzdiff/lzcmp) may use mktemp if it is available. As + a fallback xzdiff will use mkdir to securely create a temporary + directory. Having mktemp available is still recommended since the + mkdir fallback method isn't as robust as mktemp is. The original + mktemp can be found from . On GNU, most will + use the mktemp program from GNU coreutils instead of the original + implementation. Both mktemp versions are fine. + + In addition to using xz to decompress .xz files, xzgrep and xzdiff + use gzip, bzip2, and lzop to support .gz, bz2, and .lzo files. 3.2. PATH