Hi Jim & Simon, Steven M. Schweda wrote: > On a system with an old gzip, say version 1.2.4 (which is supplied > with Tru64), the victim gets much spewage from an unhappy gzip test. > For example: > ... > The cause of this clutter appears to be this part of maint.mk: > > # Do not save the original name or timestamp in the .tar.gz file. > # Use --rsyncable if available. > gzip_rsyncable := \ > $(shell gzip --help|grep rsyncable >/dev/null && echo --rsyncable) > GZIP_ENV = '--no-name --best $(gzip_rsyncable)' > > Sadly, old versions of gzip send the help/usage report to stderr, not > stdout, so ">/dev/null" alone does not discard it.
This was already reported and fixed in coreutils, in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00111.html Why do coreutils and gnulib have to have different copies of these Makefile rules? Bruno
