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Zutils vs single compressor utilities

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16876: closed (Zutils vs single compressor utilities)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:03:02 +0000

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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


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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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