Bug#688958: gzip -9n produces different files on ia64

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: gzip
Version: 1.5-1.1
User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch



For example, on my i386 machine:

$ zcat testcase.gz | gzip -9n | md5sum
0e508f76b324a228594b2214589a24d0  -

But on merulo.d.o, I get this instead:

$ zcat testcase.gz | gzip -9n | md5sum
9c8c2b70e1094193e6eb70feb5db9a5d  -


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-mckinley (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.16.8
ii  install-info  4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  libc6.1       2.13-35

gzip recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii  less  444-4

--
Jakub Wilk

On ia64 gzip -9n tends to generate compressed files that are not byte-identical to files generated on other architectures.

testcase.gz
Description: Binary data