zstd is a great setup, for sure, but the build system they use is patently awful. Can someone make an autoconf or hell, even CMake build system for them pleasee???
You could easily do something similar in GNU make or whatever without the dependencies on the FBSD build system. It's basically just the classic "cc -c a bunch of C files, then link them."
Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier than that.
Not everyone is using a standard tool chain or anything like that and oftentimes when I find projects with atypical build systems that give me trouble I tend to just move on to something else
> Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it?
Cuz I'm actually a packaging maintainer for a couple different old operating systems. Regardless I thank you for being thankful even though I feel like you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels.
Last I touched it they only had glitchy make files and I don't like cmake particularly, I was just like "bespoke make files are fine if they're posix compliant, but these aren't"
