Details on this package are located in Section 6.59.2, “Contents of Gzip.”
The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files.
Prepare Gzip for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools
Compile the package:
make
Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools here in this chapter. To run the Gzip test suite anyway, issue the following command:
make check
Install the package to a temporary directory:
make install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/debian/tmp
Create the package archive:
buildpkg --package=gzip-pass1
Install the package:
dpkg -i ../gzip-pass1_1.6_*.deb
Details on this package are located in Section 6.59.2, “Contents of Gzip.”