From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: file uncompression with native Windows Emacs Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:16:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87inqtw2tc.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <83zik5h60a.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481300656 20339 195.159.176.226 (9 Dec 2016 16:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 16:24:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 17:24:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNxz-0004Yp-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:24:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNy2-00073B-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:24:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFMub-0007tc-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFMuV-0007yj-Jq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42032 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFMuV-0007y2-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cFMuL-0005Su-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:16:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KuBkJ1HCiERw+CUeOPe/A0vu9Mg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:23:30 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111906 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I'm quite sure there's a 64-bit port of gzip available from the MSYS2 > site, but you'll have to find it yourself, or maybe someone else here > could post a URL. MSYS2's gzip depends on the MSYS2 runtime (a Cygwin fork), it does not provide a MinGW-w64 variant of that package (there is bzip2, though). This is one of the reasons why I install my Emacs with uncompressed files (no .elc.gz, .info.gz, etc). IIRC the MSYS2 maintainer is worried about the possibility of some MSYS2 script picking up MinGW-w64 (native) binaries when they should use the MSYS2 (POSIX) ones. That was his reasoning for not providing `grep' until some of us convinced him and now that package is "use it at your own risk" in case you use MSYS2 for running POSIX-based build systems.