Zip

Download Source:	ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/zip30.tgz

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Introduction to Zip

Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP by PKWARE, Inc.

Project Homepage: http://info-zip.org/

Additional Configuration Options

Use the make -f unix/Makefile list command to see the alternatives to generic_gcc for make.

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

make -f unix/Makefile generic

Install the package

make prefix=/usr -f unix/Makefile install

Command Explanations

make prefix=/usr -f unix/Makefile install: This sets the prefix variable to /usr instead of /usr/local which is the default.

Multilib

This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.

64Bit

Compile the package:

make -f unix/Makefile generic CC="gcc ${BUILD64}"

Install the package

make prefix=/usr -f unix/Makefile install

Contents

Installed Programs:	zip, zipcloak, zipnote, and zipsplit
Installed Libraries:	None
Installed Directories:	None

Short Descriptions

zip	compresses files into a ZIP archive.
zipcloak	is a utility to encrypt and decrypt a ZIP archive.
zipnote	reads or writes comments stored in a ZIP file.
zipsplit	is a utility to split ZIP files into smaller files.