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bug of gzip 1.6

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From: "scgs0121618"<scgs0121618 <at> 163.com>
To: "bug-gzip"<bug-gzip <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:18:05 +0800

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 15546-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:40:59 -0800

This looks like an installation problem.  'zless' is a wrapper around 
'less', and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not 
much that gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests 
fail (which is what is happening here).

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From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 15546-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:03:06 +0100

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Hi Paul,

> Am 10.11.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> 
> This looks like an installation problem.  'zless' is a wrapper around 'less', and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not much that gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests fail (which is what is happening here).

Sorry if I didn’t follow up on the whole report, but shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL
if less is missing?


Best regards

  — Dago


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"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
Cc: 15546-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:07:13 -0800

On 11/10/2014 11:03 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL
> if less is missing?

Wouldn't it be better to not install 'zless' if 'less' is missing? Why 
install a script that doesn't work?

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From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 15546-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:38:33 +0100

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Hi Paul,

> Am 10.11.2014 um 20:07 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> 
> On 11/10/2014 11:03 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL
>> if less is missing?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to not install 'zless' if 'less' is missing? Why install a script that doesn't work?

Of course, if that is how it is done now :-)


Best regards

  — Dago


-- 
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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