bug#69771: (no title)

2024-03-13 Thread lgtogg
Hello, I have an error when I am building gzips. How can I fix it? The error message is as follows: qwe@qwe-pc:~/桌面/gzip-1.9$ makemake  all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/home/qwe/桌面/gzip-1.9' Making all in lib make[2]: Entering directory '/home/qwe/桌面/gzip-1.9/lib' make  all-am make[3]:

bug#69788: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names

2024-03-13 Thread wrotycz
zcat, z grep and other (g)zutils Hello, I noticed, not for the first time that zcat, zgrep and rest of the utils are ambiguously named. Neither gzip nor .gz does not begin with 'z'. All other compressors call their utils by the name of extension, like xzcat, lzcat, zstdgrep and so on. This is

bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names

2024-03-13 Thread wrotycz
Hello, I noticed, not for the first time that zcat, zgrep and rest of the utils are ambiguously named. Neither gzip nor .gz does not begin with 'z'. All other compressors call their utils by the name of extension, like xzcat, lzcat, zstdgrep and so on. This is more logical and less confusing.

bug#67022: Gzip decompression can be 60% faster using zlib's CRC32

2024-03-13 Thread wrotycz
I tried to implement this slice-by-8 CRC but couldn't do it the way I wanted - without bloated zlib tables and stuff. Maybe because I don't get what updcrc(), getcrc(), setcrc() are and what they actually do. The whole program is magical, there is no way to find do_de/compress(), nor anything li

bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names

2024-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-03-13 15:54, wrotycz wrote: I propose to rename zcat, zgrep, etc., to gzcat, gzgrep, etc That's already doable when building gzip; you can use './configure --program-prefix'. Run './configure --help' for more, or see the file INSTALL.

bug#69771: (no title)

2024-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-03-12 23:10, lgtogg via GNU gzip discussion and bug reports. wrote: Hello, I have an error when I am building gzips. How can I fix it? The error message is as follows: qwe@qwe-pc:~/桌面/gzip-1.9$ makemake  all-recursive gzip 1.9 is six years old and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't