Subject: Re: bug#28514: Error in --help-text

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:44:00 -0700

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached patches, which should
> fix the problem. The last patch is the actual fix; the other patches are
> merely to bring gzip up to speed (it's been a while since anyone built
> bleeding-edge gzip, apparently).

Thanks for the fix and updates.

I have pushed the attached additional changes to make it so "make
syntax-check" passes once again.
From 211a01cbddf11e14859530e2dc88d0a6fc55800e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:30:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] maint: avoid "make syntax-check" failure due to old-NEWS
 modification

* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, to reflect recent NEWS correction.
---
 cfg.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 3ee7b0b..46bedf0 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes

-old_NEWS_hash = 8721b8773b81ae1ad7f7c8779e30ea03
+old_NEWS_hash = 143a1e2047fa15579bd66c75c7d962ce

 sc_obs_header_regex = \
   \<(STDC_HEADERS|HAVE_(LIMITS|STRING|UNISTD|STDLIB)_H)\>
-- 
2.14.1.145.gb3622a4ee

From 5d0ae40d0767f0783e796813f6099ae0168f6dd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:34:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] maint: fix "make syntax-check": remove useless
 HAVE_UTIME_H definitions

* tailor.h: Don't define HAVE_UTIME_H.
---
 tailor.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tailor.h b/tailor.h
index aec3029..2a1ddf9 100644
--- a/tailor.h
+++ b/tailor.h
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
 #    define MAXSEG_64K
 #    ifdef __TURBOC__
 #      define off_t long
-#      define HAVE_UTIME_H
 #    else /* MSC */
 #      define HAVE_SYS_UTIME_H
 #    endif
@@ -90,9 +89,6 @@
 #    define EXPAND(argc,argv) \
        {_response(&argc, &argv); _wildcard(&argc, &argv);}
 #  endif
-#  ifdef __BORLANDC__
-#    define HAVE_UTIME_H
-#  endif
 #  ifdef __ZTC__
 #    define NO_DIR 1
 #    include <dos.h>
-- 
2.14.1.145.gb3622a4ee