Subject: Re: bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:51:52 +0300

> From: Fabrice Popineau <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:46:11 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
>  `gzip' reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
>  (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
>  extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
>  modification times.
> 
>  What version of gzip did you use?
> 
> Ok, you are right. There is a version 1.6 of gzip.exe distributed with TeXLive that has interfered here.
> It doesn't preserve timestamps when compressing files. This is definitely a problem, but not in emacs.
> 
> The 1.8 gzip.exe from MSYS2 does preserve timestamps.

Heh, I have MSYS Gzip 1.3.5 and GnuWin32 Gzip 1.2.4 here, and they
both preserve timestamps.  So I guess what you have is some botched
port of Gzip.

> Sorry for the noise.

No sweat.  Closing.