Here's the relevant output from the 'make install' on CentOS 7:

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[ -z "/usr/bin/gzip" ] || { \
  echo "Compressing *.el ..." && \
  cd "/home/shassard/opt/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.92/lisp" && \
  find . -name '*.elc' -exec /bin/sh -c \
    '/usr/bin/gzip -9n `expr "$1" : "\\(.*\\)c"`' dummy '{}' ';'; \
}
Compressing *.el ...
find: ‘./progmodes/make-mode.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/m4-mode.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/cc-fonts.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/cc-engine.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/idlw-complete-structtag.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/meta-mode.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/bat-mode.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/gud.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/simula.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/autoconf.el’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./progmodes/prog-mode.el’: No such file or directory
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make immediately fails after this point.

I've attached a revised patch that adds the -9n flag to the gzip command
and switch back to -exec for find.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> Stephen Hassard wrote:
>
> > The current alpha builds are failing during 'make install' while
> > performing the .elc compression on CentOS 7.
>
> Please tell us how it fails.
>
> > I've cleaned up the find command in the Makefile and have a patch that
> > fixes the problem while retaining function on Ubuntu/Debian. Please find
> > it attached.
>
> Sadly I don't think -execdir is portable.
>