On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:53:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM: >>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >>>> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >>>> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit >>>> and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks). >>> >>> Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow? >> >>No, I'm stating that info invokes 'gunzip.exe', > >If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without >extensions.
Sorry. I don't know why I kept that sentence in there. I actually tested info after renaming gunzip.exe to gunzip and it certainly does fail. I located the problematic code in info and I'll have a new release shortly. It was YA place in texinfo where decisions were made about a "Windows" platform which don't make sense for Cygwin. cgf -- 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/
