Brad Bell wrote: > This problem has been discussed before under the subject heading > "Problem with gzip". In particular, the message > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00494.html > appears to state that a problem with "cygwin not honoring setmode" was > fixed. > > On Saturday, October 30, 2004, I downloaded and installed the current > version of the Cygwin. It appears to me that this problem is back It > is hard to work around this problem when using automake and > autoconf, which > assume piping into gzip works properly. > > The following shell script demonstrates the problem in my copy of the > October 30, 2004 version of Cygwin: ========================= > # Running the following program > # > echo "test" > Test.dat > tar -cf Test.tar Test.dat > cat Test.tar | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz > rm Test.tar > gunzip Test.tar.gz > # > # produces the following output > # > # gunzip: Test.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format > violated =========================
Works on my system, both as individual calls and from a script $ echo "test" > Test.dat WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ tar -cf Test.tar Test.dat WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ cat Test.tar | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ rm Test.tar WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ gunzip Test.tar.gz WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
