GNU bug report logs - #17971
24.3.92; Patch to fix el compression on RHEL/CentOS 7

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Hassard <steve <at> hassard.net>

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 05:35:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.92

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 17971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Hassard <steve <at> hassard.net>
Cc: 17971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17971: 24.3.92; Patch to fix el compression on RHEL/CentOS 7
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:10:22 -0400

Stephen Hassard wrote:

> Here's the relevant output from the 'make install' on CentOS 7:
>
> ----
> [ -z "/usr/bin/gzip" ] || { \
>   echo "Compressing *.el ..." && \
>   cd "/home/shassard/opt/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.92/lisp" && \
>   find . -name '*.elc' -exec /bin/sh -c \
>     '/usr/bin/gzip -9n `expr "$1" : "\\(.*\\)c"`' dummy '{}' ';'; \
> }
> Compressing *.el ...
> find: './progmodes/make-mode.el': No such file or directory

Do you know why this happens?
What has changed since RHEL6, where it works fine?

> I've attached a revised patch that adds the -9n flag to the gzip command
> and switch back to -exec for find.

This fails if DESTDIR contains spaces.
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