X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <462DF894.6090105@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:31:16 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070308 Fedora/1.5.0.10-2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: attn gzip and info maintainer References: <462D8312 DOT 40105 AT byu DOT net> <20070424122622 DOT GB4571 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20070424122622.GB4571@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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? I think what Eric is saying is that the installation of coreutils-6.9 now goes around and alters symbolic links of all packages to eliminate the ".exe" suffix. So if some package explicitly refers to that suffix, that will cause a problem. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/