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OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests

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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Subject: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:53:02 -0500

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I'm working on a PowerMac G5 running OS X 10.5. Two self tests fail
when running `make check`.

$ make check
...
make[4]: Entering directory `/Users/scripts/gzip-1.8/tests'
PASS: gzip-env
PASS: helin-segv
FAIL: help-version
PASS: hufts
PASS: keep
PASS: list
PASS: memcpy-abuse
PASS: mixed
PASS: null-suffix-clobber
PASS: stdin
PASS: trailing-nul
PASS: unpack-invalid
PASS: z-suffix
PASS: zdiff
FAIL: zgrep-f
PASS: zgrep-context
PASS: zgrep-signal
PASS: znew-k
====================================
   gzip 1.8: tests/test-suite.log
====================================

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: noloader <at> gmail.com
Cc: 30000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30000: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:33:46 -0800

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a PowerMac G5 running OS X 10.5. Two self tests fail
> when running `make check`.
>
> $ make check
> ...
> make[4]: Entering directory `/Users/scripts/gzip-1.8/tests'
> PASS: gzip-env
> PASS: helin-segv
> FAIL: help-version
...
> FAIL: zgrep-f
...
>    gzip 1.8: tests/test-suite.log

Thank you for testing, however, I am about to release gzip-1.9, and it
you would instead test the latest snapshot, that would be most
welcome. Announced here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2017-12/msg00003.html

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: noloader <at> gmail.com, 30000-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30000: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:04:32 -0800

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Thanks for reporting that. I see the problem even in the latest master, and 
installed the attached patch. Please give it a try. I'm boldly closing this bug 
report; if I'm wrong and this patch doesn't fix things we can reopen the bug report.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: noloader <at> gmail.com
Cc: 30000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30000: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:04:45 -0800

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> skylake:gzip$ git clonehttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gzip.git
> skylake:gzip$ cd gzip
> skylake:gzip$ autoreconf -i -f
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory

Instead of running autoreconf, please run './bootstrap'.

For older platforms don't bother with all the bootstrap stuff. Just bootstrap 
and configure on a new machine with up-to-date tools, then type 'make dist', 
then copy the distribution tarball to the obsolete platform and build from that.

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