[debbugs-tracker] bug#30000: closed (OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:53:02 -0500

I'm working on a PowerMac G5 running OS X 10.5. Two self tests fail
when running `make check`.

$ make check
...
make[4]: Entering directory `/Users/scripts/gzip-1.8/tests'
PASS: gzip-env
PASS: helin-segv
FAIL: help-version
PASS: hufts
PASS: keep
PASS: list
PASS: memcpy-abuse
PASS: mixed
PASS: null-suffix-clobber
PASS: stdin
PASS: trailing-nul
PASS: unpack-invalid
PASS: z-suffix
PASS: zdiff
FAIL: zgrep-f
PASS: zgrep-context
PASS: zgrep-signal
PASS: znew-k
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   gzip 1.8: tests/test-suite.log
====================================

config.zip
Description: Zip archive

test-suite.zip
Description: Zip archive

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#30000: OS X 10.5, gzip 1.8 and two failed self tests Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:04:32 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 Thanks for reporting that. I see the problem even in the latest master, and installed the attached patch. Please give it a try. I'm boldly closing this bug report; if I'm wrong and this patch doesn't fix things we can reopen the bug report.

0001-gzexe-port-to-macOS-mktemp.patch
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