Since the Bzip2 package has no configure script we can't prepare it for compilation. Instead we just run the make program and start compiling, with a few variables changed to suit our environment: make -f Makefile-libbz2_so make LDFLAGS="-s" make check make PREFIX=/stage1 install yes | cp bzip2-shared /stage1/bin/bzip2 ln -s libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so cp -a libbz2.so* /stage1/lib rm -f /stage1/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat} ln -s bzip2 /stage1/bin/bunzip2 ln -s bzip2 /stage1/bin/bzcat