Details on this package are located in Section 6.34.2, “Contents of Bzip2.”
The Bzip2 package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files. Compressing text files with bzip2 yields a much better compression percentage than with the traditional gzip.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/wiki/bzip2
The Bzip2 package does not contain a configure script. Compile and test it with:
make
Install the package:
make PREFIX=/tools install
Details on this package are located in Section 6.34.2, “Contents of Bzip2.”