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invoking gunzip.exe
From: |
Eric Blake |
Subject: |
invoking gunzip.exe |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:38:52 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: |
Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Texinfo makes a bad assumption that if gzip.exe exists, then gunzip.exe also
exists. On recent cygwin, this is not true (with gzip 1.3.9, gunzip was merely
a symlink to the real gzip.exe, and the cygwin port of coreutils no longer
puts .exe suffixes on symlinks; and with gzip 1.3.12, gunzip is a shell script
and must not have the .exe suffix).
See also:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00680.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00693.html
I'm not sure what patch Chris Faylor put in his latest cygwin drop of texinfo
to fix this improper Windows-ism, but it would be nice to have upstream:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-04/msg00035.html
--
Eric Blake