[GRASS-dev] ZSTD compressor not compiled by default if available

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Nikos,

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:18 PM Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
> Dears,
>
> do I understand it wrong that, if available in a system, the ZSTD
> compressor _should_ be compiled by default?

I don't think so as it says "default: no" (see below).

> Or does the choice for
> "default" concern only the `r.compress` module?
>
> In trunk:
> ```
> ./configure --help |grep zstd
>   --with-zstd             support Zstandard functionality (default: no)
>   --with-zstd-includes=DIRS
>   --with-zstd-libs=DIRS   ZSTD library files are in DIRS
> ```

On my systems, I always define

configure ... \
   --with-zstd  \
  ...

Markus