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Re: [Chicken-users] gunzip dependency


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] gunzip dependency
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:10:25 -0400
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Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:

> What would it take to eliminate chicken-setup's reliance on gunzip on 
> Windows?

The issue is really twofold:

1) chicken-setup depends on tar to take apart eggs;

2) Chicken does not know if the local tar understands the z option or
   not, so it uses gzip foo.egg | tar xfv - to unpack it.  If the z option
   always worked, then tar xfvz foo.egg would suffice; but SlowLaris tar
   (and I believe also HockeyPux tar) do not understand this option.

A suitable tar for pure Windows that does understand the z option is
GNUWin32 bsdtar at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bsdtar.htm .
This version has integrated the zlib library for decompression.

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