[vox-tech] gzip bug?

[Charles Polisher]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:03:22AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Charles Polisher <cpolish@attbi.com> 
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:14:08PM -0800, Kevin Dawson wrote:
>  
> yeah, before i replied to this message, i checked what libraries gzip is
> linked against -- it's just linked against libc, and not zlib (which is
> odd.  i was expecting zlib.)

*nods* Still scratching for an answer, I installed the
sources for gzip, and found this tidbit in the README:


	WARNING: on several systems, compiler bugs cause gzip to fail, in
	particular when optimization options are on.  See the section "Special
	targets" at the end of the INSTALL file for a list of known problems.
	For all machines, use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled
	correctly.  Try compiling gzip without any optimization if you have a
	problem.

>From the md5sum signature, it appears the installed binary giving trouble
is the 586 optimized version. There's a small chance that installing the
i386 version will fix the problem...

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1
      /en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gzip-1.3-12.i386.rpm

(url broken in half to fit the screen)

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