Bzip2's home page is at The UK home site. The United States mirror site is here. You can also find it on Red Hat's ftp site here.
French speakers may wish to refer to Arnaud Launay's French documents. The web version is here, and you can use ftp here Arnaud can be contacted by electronic mail at this address
Japanese speakers may wish to refer to Tetsu Isaji's Japanese documents here. Isaji can be reached at his home page, or by electronic mail at this address.
Swedish speakers may wish to refer to Linus Ãkerlund's Swedish documents here. Linus can be reached by electronic mail at this address.
See the home sites.
Red Hat's alpha binary is here.
Red Hat's Intel binary is here.
Red Hat's SPARC binary is here.
Slackware's Intel binary is here.
S.u.S.E.'s Intel binary is here.
You can also get these in the analogous places at the various mirror sites.
They come from the Official sites (see Getting Bzip2 for where, or Red Hat has it here).
If you have gcc 2.7.*, change the line that reads
CFLAGS = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
to
CFLAGS = -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
that is, replace -O3 with -O2 and drop the -funroll-loops. You may also wish to add any -m* flags (like -m486, for example) you use when compiling kernels.
Avoiding -funroll-loops is the most important part, since this will cause many gcc 2.7's to generate wrong code, and all gcc 2.7's to generate slower and larger code. For other compilers (lcc, egcs, gcc 2.8.x) the default CFLAGS are fine.
After that, just make it
and install it per the README.