Brotli provides a general-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling. Its libraries are particularly used for WOFF2 fonts on webpages.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/v1.2.0/brotli-1.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8fbfae9a5ecbc278ae7f761ecb6d1285
Download size: 632 KB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB (with python3 bindings)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with python3 bindings; parallelism=4)
pytest-8.4.2 (for testing Python3 bindings)
Install brotli by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-G Ninja .. &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
If desired, build the Python3 bindings:
cd .. &&
sed -e '/libraries +=/s/=.*/= [required_system_library[3:]]/' \
-e '/package_configuration/d' \
-e '/pkgconfig/d' \
-i setup.py &&
USE_SYSTEM_BROTLI=1 \
pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps --no-cache-dir $PWD
Install the Python3 bindings as
the root user:
pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist --no-user Brotli
To test the Python3 binding, issue: pytest.
sed ... -i setup.py:
Allow building the Python3 binding
with USE_SYSTEM_BROTLI=1 but without the
Python 3 pkgconfig module (that BLFS does not provide) installed.
USE_SYSTEM_BROTLI=1: Stop setup.py from rebuilding the entire package all
over again, use the already installed libraries for the
Python3 binding instead.