-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Staub wrote: >> gzip <$? >$@ >> >> Everywhere else when it needs to use a program in the sourcedir, it >> just uses the pathname..."./zdiff", "./zgrep", etc...and at the >> end of the testsuite it does also use "./gzip". > > Sounds like an error in the test script to me. We ought to fix it in > the book and send a patch upstream.
It might be intended. If you're trying to test just the decompression part of zdiff (which is presumably shared with gunzip?), then it makes sense to me to use the assumed-good system gzip to build an assumed-good gzipped file. Then use the just-built decompression code, and compare the result with what you started with. If there was a "symmetric" bug in both the compression and decompression sides of gzip, then using the just-built gzip would hide it. As long as the gzip file format never changes, it should be OK to use the system gzip binary, I think. (But it may be good to bring this up upstream anyway, just in case.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBE9/S5vET1Wea5wRA/67AJ0dmeEWxtDVZnL5qwmdHtEOsPnvkwCaAg2h EpcATNFfBiOo8/gCbkFBMzs= =zXet -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
