Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

2010-01-25 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, I have a failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc with Sun Studio 11, all other tests run fine. Best regards -- Dago gzip 1.4: ./test-suite.log 1 of 5 tests failed. .. contents:: :depth: 2 FAIL: tests/zgrep-f (exit: 1)

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

2010-01-25 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, Am 25.01.2010 um 12:59 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen: I have a failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc with Sun Studio 11, all other tests run fine. gzip 1.4: ./test-suite.log 1 of 5 tests failed. .. contents:: :depth: 2 FAIL

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

2010-01-26 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, Am 26.01.2010 um 08:57 schrieb Jim Meyering: Dagobert Michelsen wrote: Further investigation showed that the problem is a call of the generic system-wide grep from Solaris in zgrep which doesn't understand several of the flags. Replacing the invocation with a gnu grep solved the pr

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

2010-01-27 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Karl, Am 27.01.2010 um 01:13 schrieb Karl Berry: How about having zgrep first look in its own directory (dirname $0) for grep before resorting to PATH? That would also fully resolve my problem. Nice solution :-) Best regards -- Dago

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

2010-01-27 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, Am 27.01.2010 um 15:52 schrieb Jim Meyering: Dagobert Michelsen wrote: Hi Karl, Am 27.01.2010 um 01:13 schrieb Karl Berry: How about having zgrep first look in its own directory (dirname $0) for grep before resorting to PATH? That would also fully resolve my problem. Nice solution

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

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 "

Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

2011-01-03 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Antonio, Am 02.01.2011 um 21:44 schrieb Antonio Diaz Diaz: > Eric Blake wrote: >> As long as it is a configure-time option, with the default being the way >> it was before, but the ability to change it is easy, then distros will >> use the option to make the change. > > Some distros are alrea

bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

2014-02-25 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, Am 16.01.2012 um 23:58 schrieb Paul Eggert : > On 01/16/12 10:59, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: >> So here is a better patch > > I don't see why either patch is needed. > Without the patches, for example, > "./configure --program-transform-name='s/^z/gz/'" > followed by "make install" install

bug#18999: Testsuite summary for gzip 1.6 SunOS 5.10 Sparc

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, > Am 10.11.2014 um 16:42 schrieb Jim Meyering : > Hi Paul, > It's been 17 months since the last gzip release, and there > have been a few bug fixes, so I'm inclined to make a new > release. I'm preparing to update gnulib, bootstrap and NEWS. > Do you know of anything else that should be do

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, > Am 10.11.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Paul Eggert : > > This looks like an installation problem. 'zless' is a wrapper around 'less', > and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not much that > gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests fail (which is >

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, > Am 10.11.2014 um 20:07 schrieb Paul Eggert : > > On 11/10/2014 11:03 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL >> if less is missing? > > Wouldn't it be better to not install 'zless' if 'less' is missing? Why

bug#23022: new snapshot available: gzip-1.6.51-989e

2016-03-15 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, Am 15.03.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Jim Meyering : > ** New features > gzip now accepts the --rsyncable option. ++ for that, thanks! Looks good on Solaris 10 Sparc and Solaris 10 x86 with Solaris Studio 12. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you becom

bug#25636: new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.18-00e6

2017-02-07 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, > Am 06.02.2017 um 19:38 schrieb Jim Meyering : > > In the eight months since gzip-1.8 there have been some bug fixes, along > with many improvements via gnulib, so here's a snapshot of the latest. > Please test it and let us know how that goes. > > gzip snapshot: > http://meyering.net/

bug#35401: Decompressing File

2019-04-24 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Marvita, Am 23.04.2019 um 20:03 schrieb Davis, Marvita : > I am having issues decompressing the ".gz" files on our side. These are > files generated by Bloomberg. Bloomberg is able to decompress on their end > with ... "gunzip -d -k dFIR_20190329110022.dat.gz" ... and have helped me out >

bug#49952: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.10.34-aa73

2021-08-09 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, Am 09.08.2021 um 07:37 schrieb Jim Meyering : > NEWS (below) is nearly empty, but it's been more than 2.5 years since > the last release, so I am now preparing to make a new one. Any testing > would be most welcome. If anyone has pending changes, please speak > soon. I aim to release in

bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

2022-04-04 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, Am 04.04.2022 um 21:01 schrieb Paul Eggert : > On 2/25/14 11:40, Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >>> Shouldn’t the transformation be >>> applied to all occurrences? >> Yes, I think it should. > > After eight