On 03/21/2011 03:09 AM, Kalev Soikonen wrote: > Apparently, gmake exports the variables that were exported in the first place, > thus gzip is invoked with "GZIP=/bin/gzip" in its env.
That's pretty unfortunate. Perhaps gzip should ignore the GZIP environment variable unless it is parsable as a series of options? gzip could issue a warning in that case, but proceed as if GZIP were unset.