Re: Emacs complains about missing gzip when accessing .el.gz file

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Because (a) zlib support is optional, and (b) no one has written code
> to use that as an alternative to gzip.

Thanks.

> Patches welcome.

Adapting jka-compr-insert-file-contents for detecting .gz files and
using zlib-decompress-region (if available) instead of calling gzip
would add ugliness to an already hairy function.

I'll add --without-compress-install to the MSYS2 build instead. Having
gzipped sources and info files on MS Windows are not all that convenient
anyway.