[PATCH 23/23] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available

Nathan Chancellor nathan at kernel.org
Fri Sep 11 23:38:11 PDT 2026


On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 12:03:51PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> Actually make KGZIP=foo will override this still. But it doesn't take an
> environment variable for make -e.
> 
> However, that's consistent with other variables there like KBZIP2 etc.
> 
> Probably the wording in the docs should be tweaked!

Hmmm, TIL, I thought := always overrode a value specified on the command
line but I guess not! I don't think there is anything that needs to be
clarified.

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Cheers,
Nathan



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