* Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file
@ 2016-08-01 21:39 Óscar Fuentes
2016-08-02 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Óscar Fuentes @ 2016-08-01 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Windows, when I try to access some installed .el.gz file (with
`find-function', for instance) Emacs complains:
Uncompression program `gzip' not found
Since Emacs has built-in support for zlib (this build lists ZLIB among
its configured features) why does it need gzip?
Emacs version 25.1.50.1 of 2016-06-06 (i686-w64-mingw32) (built on the
MSYS2 environment.)
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* Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file
2016-08-01 21:39 Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file Óscar Fuentes
@ 2016-08-02 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-02 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-08-02 2:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:39:38 +0200
>
> On Windows, when I try to access some installed .el.gz file (with
> `find-function', for instance) Emacs complains:
>
> Uncompression program `gzip' not found
>
> Since Emacs has built-in support for zlib (this build lists ZLIB among
> its configured features) why does it need gzip?
Because (a) zlib support is optional, and (b) no one has written code
to use that as an alternative to gzip.
Patches welcome.
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* Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file
2016-08-02 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2016-08-02 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-08-02 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Óscar Fuentes @ 2016-08-02 3:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Because (a) zlib support is optional, and (b) no one has written code
> to use that as an alternative to gzip.
Thanks.
> Patches welcome.
Adapting jka-compr-insert-file-contents for detecting .gz files and
using zlib-decompress-region (if available) instead of calling gzip
would add ugliness to an already hairy function.
I'll add --without-compress-install to the MSYS2 build instead. Having
gzipped sources and info files on MS Windows are not all that convenient
anyway.
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* Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file
2016-08-02 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
@ 2016-08-02 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-08-02 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 05:34:11 +0200
>
> I'll add --without-compress-install to the MSYS2 build instead. Having
> gzipped sources and info files on MS Windows are not all that convenient
> anyway.
That's already supported at "make install" time. Something like this:
make install GZIP_PROG=''
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