[OE-core] [PATCH] Add pigz as gzip-native alternative.

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Björn,

On Tuesday 13 March 2012 15:52:51 Björn Stenberg wrote:
> pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully
> functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and
> multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data. pigz was written by Mark
> Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries.
> 
> This recipe adds pigz as an alternative provider of gzip-native. Pigz is
> much faster than gzip on multi-core machines.
> 
> Upstream-status: Pending

This needs to be moved to the inner ldflags.patch, and..

> Signed-off-by: Björn Stenberg <bjst at enea.com>

this should be copied to there. The patch should also start with an 
explanation of what the patch does (in this case it's trivial, but still worth 
having in there.)

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre