On 03/17/2015 07:53 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Very nice.
Thanks for checking it. I changed one minor nit (an if-then-else which was a tiny bit clearer with the if-condition negated and the then- and else- parts swapped) and installed the result.
Hmm, after doing that, though, I discovered that Automake generates a dist-gzip rule that by default sets GZIP='--best' in the environment. I think this is partly to work around the problem that GZIP in the environment can mess up how 'gzip' works, and partly to generate more-compressed output. So this behavior by Automake is *both* a workaround for the longstanding gzip misfeature, *and* a use of the misfeature. What a mess.
I suppose we could fix Automake to supply --best in a more-portable way. Or perhaps we could unbend a bit and allow GZIP to supply -1 through -9, --fast, --best.
