[ Fished this one out from the spam box. ] Hi!
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 20:31:53 -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Source: dpkg > Version: 1.18.0 > Severity: minor > The exact configure line is: > ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-dselect --without-zlib --without-bz2 > --without-liblzma --without-selinux PERL_LIBDIR=/tools/lib/perl/5.20.2 > > With this build, trying to create a package fails with: > > gzip: invalid option -- '-' > Try `gzip --help' for more information. > dpkg-deb (subprocess): subprocess compressing control member returned error > exit status 1 > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <compress> from tar -cf returned error exit > status 2 > > It appears that gzip is being called with arguments -c -n-1. (Also, > tracing the code path, as far as I can tell even in the zlib case gzdopen > would be called with mode "w-1" and I'm not sure exactly what effect that > would have.) Passing --uniform-compression does work around the issue. Indeed, nice catch! I've fixed it locally and will be included in 1.18.1. It seems it would also affect the 1.17.x branch, so I'll test and queue a fix for the next stable release. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
