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author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com> | 2015-01-13 23:54:02 +0100 |
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committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com> | 2015-01-13 23:54:02 +0100 |
commit | 8257ed81c9cd54f8247759b5d754eea983aa1a43 (patch) | |
tree | 45dbb64c049bc421c5dbe928712a9ff99b717079 /pkgs/tools/compression/lz4 | |
parent | 41b53577a8f2e8ed45ef06ae3f13a92c7c90c3b4 (diff) | |
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Add lz4: very fast lossless compression
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diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/lz4/default.nix new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6f7cf5b987a --- /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 ]; + }; +} |