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RE: attn gzip and info maintainer
On 24 April 2007 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe.
>> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9,
>> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit
>> and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks).
>
> Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow?
>
> cgf
Because the other option would be for the gunzip post-install script to
explicitly create an exe-extensioned symlink in addition to the standard
gunzip one, no?
cheers,
DaveK
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