diff --git a/extra/plzip/build b/extra/plzip/build
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+# plzip is the only thing that will ever require
+# this library. Let's simple build it and statically
+# compile plzip.
+(cd lzlib; ./configure; make)
+
+./configure \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -static -L$PWD/lzlib -I$PWD/lzlib"
+
+make
+make DESTDIR="$1" install
+
+# Create the symlink for compatibility. We're using
+# a multi-threaded implementation of lzip.
+ln -s plzip "$1/usr/bin/lzip"
diff --git a/extra/plzip/checksums b/extra/plzip/checksums
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+edafae3c15142ac0ebd84c2231ff81da4f68db58359a737e750f2780686c3612  plzip-1.8.tar.gz
+2472f8d93830d0952b0c75f67e372d38c8f7c174dde2252369d5b20c87d3ba8e  lzlib-1.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/extra/plzip/sources b/extra/plzip/sources
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+http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.8.tar.gz
+http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.9.tar.gz lzlib
diff --git a/extra/plzip/version b/extra/plzip/version
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+1.8 1