Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:53 AM: > If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without > extensions. True, but look at this: $ strings /bin/info.exe | grep -A12 gunzip gunzip .bz2 bunzip2 uncompress unyabba .info -info /index .inf /usr/local/info:/us

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 i

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
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

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 l

RE: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 (a

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 confusin

attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
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). Also, gzip has released a stabl