GNU bug report logs - #23107
new snapshot available: gzip-1.6.56-9190

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Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 23107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 23107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23107: new snapshot available: gzip-1.6.56-9190
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:27:12 -0700
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Thanks again for checking all that.

Assaf Gordon wrote:

> On NetBSD 7.0, 6.1.4, One test fails (zgrep-f) perhaps due to filename issues?


No, NetBSD's mktemp command is incompatible with GNU's, in terms of the 
interpretation of -t. The simplest fix is to stop using mktemp's -t option 
(which has been "deprecated" in the GNU version for many years anyway).

> I'm adding Alpine Linux to my test suite ( https://alpinelinux.org/ ).
> ...
> On this system, zdiff check fails because busybox's diff does not support the "-c" option

Wow, *that* is stripped down. Well, it shouldn't be that hard to port to. Does 
the attached patch fix the problem (as well as the NetBSD problem)?

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