tags 23023 notabug done On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 03/15/2016 01:16 PM, Kishan c Gollapudi wrote: >> >> Not finding any other differences, we wondered if that back-level >> of >> gzip would cause the problem????! > > > Doesn't ring a bell. Anything's possible. > > RHEL 6.7 has gzip 1.3.12 so it is a bit odd that your customer is running > 1.3.3. 1.3.3 is reeeally old and has a lot of security bugs. The GNU project > no longer distributes 1.3.3, even as an old release, so we can't easily > debug any problems involving 1.3.3. Maybe the customer has an old > user-installed binary of gzip 1.3.3? If so, I'd be suspicious of it, and > suggest removing it and using the gzip that comes with RHEL.
Thanks for the report. I'm marking the auto-created issue as "done" and "not a bug", since it does not appear to be a problem with any recent version. You're welcome to continue replying here, and we'll all still be able to discuss. FYI, it's all archived at http://bugs.gnu.org/23023
