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Zutils vs single compressor utilities

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From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz <at> teleline.es>, bug-gzip <at> gnu.org,
 Rob Savoye <rob <at> welcomehome.org>
Subject: Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:47:57 +0100

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Hi Paul,

Am 16.01.2012 um 23:58 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> 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 <at> 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


-- 
"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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Message #8 received at 16876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
Cc: ant_diaz <at> teleline.es, 16876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rob <at> welcomehome.org
Subject: Re: bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:40:28 -0800

On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Shouldn’t the transformation be
> applied to all occurrences?
Yes, I think it should.

Message #13 received at 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
Cc: 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ant_diaz <at> teleline.es, rob <at> welcomehome.org
Subject: Re: bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:01:47 -0700

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On 2/25/14 11:40, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Shouldn’t the transformation be
>> applied to all occurrences?
> Yes, I think it should.

After eight years I got around to implementing this (since nobody else 
wanted to :-) and installed the attached. Something like this should 
appear in the next gzip release.

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Message #16 received at 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ant_diaz <at> teleline.es, rob <at> welcomehome.org
Subject: Re: bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 21:05:28 +0200

Hi Paul,

Am 04.04.2022 um 21:01 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> On 2/25/14 11:40, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Shouldn’t the transformation be
>>> applied to all occurrences?
>> Yes, I think it should.
> 
> After eight years I got around to implementing this (since nobody else wanted to :-) and installed the attached. Something like this should appear in the next gzip release.<0001-build-support-program-prefix-etc.patch><0002-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch><0003-maint-update-from-Gnulib.patch>

Thank you very much :-) I am still around to appreciate the updated version in the
next package release!


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

Message #19 received at 16876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio <at> gnu.org>
To: 16876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: dam <at> opencsw.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, rob <at> welcomehome.org
Subject: Re: bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:35:17 +0200

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2/25/14 11:40, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Shouldn’t the transformation be
>>> applied to all occurrences?
>> Yes, I think it should.
>
> After eight years I got around to implementing this (since nobody else
> wanted to :-)

Thank you very much, Paul. I would say that the problem was difficult enough 
that nobody else dared to fix it. ;-)

Best regards,
Antonio.

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