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Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4 |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:52:37 +0200 |
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Hi Jim & Simon,
Steven M. Schweda wrote:
> On a system with an old gzip, say version 1.2.4 (which is supplied
> with Tru64), the victim gets much spewage from an unhappy gzip test.
> For example:
> ...
> The cause of this clutter appears to be this part of maint.mk:
>
> # Do not save the original name or timestamp in the .tar.gz file.
> # Use --rsyncable if available.
> gzip_rsyncable := \
> $(shell gzip --help|grep rsyncable >/dev/null && echo --rsyncable)
> GZIP_ENV = '--no-name --best $(gzip_rsyncable)'
>
> Sadly, old versions of gzip send the help/usage report to stderr, not
> stdout, so ">/dev/null" alone does not discard it.
This was already reported and fixed in coreutils, in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00111.html
Why do coreutils and gnulib have to have different copies of these Makefile
rules?
Bruno
- maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Steven M. Schweda, 2007/10/20
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Jim Meyering, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Sync maintainer-makefile files (was: Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4), Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Micah Cowan, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Micah Cowan, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/23