attn gzip and info maintainer

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:53:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM:
>>> 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?
>>
>>No, I'm stating that info invokes 'gunzip.exe',
>
>If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without
>extensions.

Sorry.  I don't know why I kept that sentence in there.  I actually
tested info after renaming gunzip.exe to gunzip and it certainly does
fail.  I located the problematic code in info and I'll have a new
release shortly.  It was YA place in texinfo where decisions were made
about a "Windows" platform which don't make sense for Cygwin.

cgf

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