Subject: Re: bug#30029: gzip-1.9 released [stable]

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:08:16 +0200

On Mär 31 2022, Paul Eggert wrote:

> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 074d81a..d9c77da 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ AC_PROG_CC
>  AM_PROG_CC_C_O
>  AC_PROG_CPP
>  AC_PROG_GREP
> +AC_CHECK_PROG([LESS], [less], [less])
> +AM_CONDITIONAL([LESS], [test "$LESS"])
>  AC_CHECK_TOOL([NM], [nm], [nm])
>  AC_PROG_LN_S
>  AC_PROG_RANLIB

This check is bogus.  It tests the build environment, which has nothing
to do with the host environment.

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