Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Dagobert Michelsen wrote: ... >> It already prepends "$(bindir):" to $PATH (bindir is $prefix/bin). >> Does that not work for you? > > Unfortunately not, as grep gets installed as ggrep to allow explicit > selection of greps. Sorry, I didn't thought of this when I wrote my > previous email. Looks l

Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-28 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, Am 28.01.2010 um 14:36 schrieb Jim Meyering: Dagobert Michelsen wrote: ... It already prepends "$(bindir):" to $PATH (bindir is $prefix/bin). Does that not work for you? Unfortunately not, as grep gets installed as ggrep to allow explicit selection of greps. Sorry, I didn't thought of

Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
According to Dagobert Michelsen on 1/28/2010 6:39 AM: >> >> That's not needed, since zgrep can already accommodate that. >> Just set the GREP envvar to the name you happen to use: >> >> export GREP=ggrep >> >> Then, it should "just work". > > Ok, but this would also move the burden of "fixing" to

Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Dagobert Michelsen on 1/28/2010 6:39 AM: >>> >>> That's not needed, since zgrep can already accommodate that. >>> Just set the GREP envvar to the name you happen to use: >>> >>> export GREP=ggrep >>> >>> Then, it should "just work". >> >> Ok, but this would also mo

Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-28 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, Am 28.01.2010 um 14:48 schrieb Jim Meyering: Eric Blake wrote: According to Dagobert Michelsen on 1/28/2010 6:39 AM: That's not needed, since zgrep can already accommodate that. Just set the GREP envvar to the name you happen to use: export GREP=ggrep Then, it should "just work".

Gunzipping VMWare Server 2

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Rodriguez
Having downloaded VMWare Server 2 for Linux binary (.gz) I find I cannot unzip it. I think I have used all possible combinations of gunzip but I always get the same error message "gzip: VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated" Is this an indication of a bug