Re: [Zutils-bug] Version 1.0-rc3 of zutils released

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Antonio,

Am 29.10.2012 um 12:07 schrieb Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden>:
> Version 1.0-rc3 of zutils is ready for testing here
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.0-rc3.tar.gz
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.0-rc3.tar.lz
> 
> The md5sums are:
> 82b40d9e87c161dba70664007416e767  zutils-1.0-rc3.tar.gz
> 2a1c6ea7a2f62bde43474d0e39d727c8  zutils-1.0-rc3.tar.lz
> 
> Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

I just did a test on Solaris 9 Sparc with Sun Studio 12 and got the following 
issues:

1. requires inttypes.h instead of stdint.h and requires extra include signal.h

There are due the old OS and probably not worth fixing:
  
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/zutils/trunk/files/0001-Use-inttypes.h-instead-of-stdint.h-and-add-signal.h.patch

2. Wrong type on str.insert: should be (char *) NULL instead of 0L

This leads to ambiguous casts either on 32 bit or with 0UL on 64 bit. This can
easily be corrected with
  
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/zutils/trunk/files/0004-Avoid-ambiguity-between-char-and-unsigned-long-on-sp.patch

Apart from that it works fine with 32 and 64 bit on spark, i386 and amd64.

> Zcat, zcmp, zdiff and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell scripts 
> provided with GNU gzip. Ztest is unique to zutils.


We have been traditionally naming these with uppercase "Z". I remember you were
talking to the gzip team about adjusting the names to remove the collisions.
Has this been settled?


Best regards

  -- Dago


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