Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Paul,

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I suspect it's better to approach any such replacement conservatively,
> where the default is to do things as they were done before.

I see a couple ways to achieve this:

a) Building always the "gzscripts" (gzcat, gzcmp, gzdiff, gzgrep), and 
adding to configure the option "--enable-zscripts=no" to disable 
building of the "zscripts" (zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep). (The "gzscripts" 
should have to be built always because the Standards do not allow using 
the "--enable" option to substitute one useful behavior for another 
useful behavior).

b) Adding to configure the option "--with-zutils", which would instruct 
gzip to build the "gzscripts" instead of the "zscripts". (I am not sure 
if this is an appropiate use for the "--with" option).


Best regards,
Antonio.