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Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file |
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Tue, 02 Aug 2016 05:32:26 +0300 |
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:39:38 +0200
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> On Windows, when I try to access some installed .el.gz file (with
> `find-function', for instance) Emacs complains:
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> Uncompression program `gzip' not found
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> 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.