verbose output not working on iMac

[ErwinP]

Dear,

Using lbzip2 from the command line fails when adding either -v or --verbose to the command. In that case, it makes a bz2 file, but in there, there is only a .cpgz file to be found. The command line throws out the following error: Illegal instruction: 4.

This is on High Sierra with an iMac 21.5-inch, Mid 2011 with an 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7.

I tried to compile it myself and to install it using homebrew with no difference whatsoever.

The same iMac running on Yosemite does the job as it should, so I suppose this problem is due to an instruction that High Sierra doesn't understand.

Any way to fix this?

Thank you in advance,
Erwin

[dancek]

Homebrew/homebrew-core#27077 should fix this once merged (if you installed from Homebrew).

[dancek]

Never mind, they won't merge it. The issue is that the lbzip2-2.5.tar.bz2 contains an old version of gnulib that crashes. The fix would be to release a new version with the current version of libs.

[logological]

In order to work around Issue #22, I have published my own source distribution for lbzip2 2.5 which is bootstrapped using the latest version of gnulib. See my comment on that issue for further details. The distribution probably also works around this issue, though as I don't have macOS I can't check.