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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#30029: gzip-1.9 released [stable] |
Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:34:37 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 |
On 4/10/22 11:27, Andreas Schwab wrote:
AC_PROG_GREP +AC_CHECK_PROG([LESS], [less], [less]) +AM_CONDITIONAL([LESS], [test "$LESS"]) >> ...This check is bogus. It tests the build environment, which has nothing to do with the host environment.In other words, it's like AC_PROG_GREP.Two wrongs don't make a right.
I didn't say either was right. However, gzip has used AC_PROG_GREP this way for a decade with no actual bugs reported, so doing things differently is low priority.
You're welcome to write a patch. I assume a patch should handle GREP, LESS, and SHELL (perhaps others; I haven't checked). For consistency, it'd be helpful to write similar patches for other GNU packages.
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