Subject: Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
From: Dagobert Michelsen <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Cc: Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Rob Savoye <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:47:57 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Paul,

Am 16.01.2012 um 23:58 schrieb Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> On 01/16/12 10:59, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
>> So here is a better patch
> 
> I don't see why either patch is needed.
> Without the patches, for example,
> "./configure --program-transform-name='s/^z/gz/'"
> followed by "make install" installs gzcat.1, not
> zcat.1.  Isn't that what you want?

I am currently rebuilding our gzip package and tried your suggestion:
it renames the programs and manpages but not the invocations:

> dam@unstable10s [unstable10s]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/gzip/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/pkgroot/opt/csw/bin > more gzfgrep
> #!/bin/bash
> bindir='/opt/csw/bin'
> case $1 in
> --__bindir) bindir=${2?}; shift; shift;;
> esac
> PATH=$bindir:$PATH
> exec zgrep --__bindir "$bindir" -F "$@„

Please note the invocation of zgrep here instead of gzgrep. Shouldn’t the transformation be
applied to all occurrences?

Best regards

  — Dago

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