Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Daniel E. Macks wrote:
> []
>> I just adjusted xfig for this (among other fixes). Please let us know
>> whether it works now.
>
> Thanks for the xfree-4.5 fix.
>
> The fix for the files with names starting with a hyphen works in so far 
> as they are now installed. But you can't use them anyway, because gzip 
> chokes on the hyphen, too:
>
> File -a.fig.gz:
> Couldn't uncompress the file: "gunzip -q -c -a.fig.gz > /tmp/-a.fig"
> Uncompressing file -a.fig.gz in /tmp because it is in a read-only directory
> Error reading -a.fig

New revision patches those gunzip commands.

> It is severe upstream brain damage to have such file names. I don't know 
> if simply renaming them would be sufficient or if some other part 
> expects them to have these crazy names.

Yeah. Upstream author is quite friendly and has a new build script
that solves the installation bug, but I think still has those files. I
don't know a thing about this package actually. Sorry for jumping all
over it, drm!

dan

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Daniel Macks
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