diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 979619574f70..f8cf938dde98 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -183,20 +183,34 @@ cmd_objcopy = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS_$(@F)) $< $@
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 quiet_cmd_gzip = GZIP    $@
-cmd_gzip = gzip -f -9 < $< > $@
+cmd_gzip = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | gzip -f -9 > $@) || \
+	(rm -f $@ ; false)
 
 
 # Bzip2
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Bzip2 does not include size in file... so we have to fake that
-size_append=$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/bin_size
+# Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
+# append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
+size_append = echo -ne $(shell						\
+dec_size=0;								\
+for F in $1; do								\
+	fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);					\
+	dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize);				\
+done;									\
+printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\
+	sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\\\\x\4\\\\x\3\\\\x\2\\\\x\1/g'	\
+)
 
-quiet_cmd_bzip2 = BZIP2    $@
-cmd_bzip2 = (bzip2 -9 < $< && $(size_append) $<) > $@ || (rm -f $@ ; false)
+quiet_cmd_bzip2 = BZIP2   $@
+cmd_bzip2 = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
+	bzip2 -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
+	(rm -f $@ ; false)
 
 # Lzma
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 quiet_cmd_lzma = LZMA    $@
-cmd_lzma = (lzma -9 -c $< && $(size_append) $<) >$@ || (rm -f $@ ; false)
+cmd_lzma = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
+	lzma -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
+	(rm -f $@ ; false)
diff --git a/scripts/bin_size b/scripts/bin_size
deleted file mode 100644
index 43e1b360cee6..000000000000
--- a/scripts/bin_size
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
-   echo Usage: $0 file
-fi
-
-size_dec=`stat -c "%s" $1`
-size_hex_echo_string=`printf "%08x" $size_dec |
-     sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\\\\x\4\\\\x\3\\\\x\2\\\\x\1/g'`
-/bin/echo -ne $size_hex_echo_string