Re: gzip 1.3.6 broken on Tandem NSK/OSS

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Also, apologies for dropping bugs-gzip, I'm used to gmane handling > cross-posting, but obviously it doesn't if the list isn't on > gmane. Paul: I take it you have not heard back from them yet?) No. Perhaps you can bug them separately?

Re: gzip 1.3.6 broken on Tandem NSK/OSS

2006-12-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: Honestly, I'm a little confused/amused with this whole situation... :-) I'm used to using gzip as a stream compressor that /occasionally/ opens a file, unlinks it, and puts back a different file. The problem is that "gzip -r DIR" recursively traverses

Re: gzip 1.3.6 broken on Tandem NSK/OSS

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Honestly, I'm a little confused/amused with this whole > situation... :-) > I'm used to using gzip as a stream compressor that /occasionally/ > opens a file, unlinks it, and puts back a different file. The problem is that "gzip -r DIR" recursively tra

Re: converting gnulib: cvs to git

2006-12-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: >gnulib-tool > > That's for Bruno, I expect. I abstain. The keyword has served its purpose once, by allowing us to easily diagnose that a user's gnulib checkout was 6 months old. But OTOH I believe, with Jim, that git's nonlinear branch topology makes this unusable in the f

Re: gzip 1.3.6 broken on Tandem NSK/OSS

2006-12-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gzip 1.3.6 does not build on Tandem NSK/OSS because it uses fchdir, which does not exist on NSK/OSS. This was added in gzip 1.3.5. Is there a replacement for this function (e.g. in gnulib)? Can its use be removed/conditionalized? I