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The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source
If I was going to lean more into clickbait, I’d title this “7-Zip isn’t open source”. It’s likely if you’re on Linux you’re actually using a fork of it called p7zip, rather than the upstream project.
Firstly, it looks like 7-Zip started out as a Windows-only project and secondly the “optimised build” of 7-Zip requires some hand rolled (?) Even if I did want to use the prebuilt version, it’s dynamically linked to glibc so won’t work on alpine. Someone smarter than me, please work out the performance impact of not having the assembly routines in 7-Zip - there is a “GCC-only” Makefile and maybe this whole exercise was pointless.
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