Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

[Matthew Woehlke]

Georg Schwarz wrote:
> Am 20.12.2006 um 01:20 schrieb Matthew Woehlke:
> > Is /usr/sbin in your path? (Does 'which grep' or 'type grep' find it?)
>
> yes, it is. But configure does not seem to care at this point, using 
> only a set of fixed paths to search for 'find'. As I said, the same 
> issue exists with other recent GNU software as well.

Hmm, that can't be good. I specifically build certain GNU packages (sed, 
grep, awk, to be specific) in a certain order, and before building other 
packages, specifically so that later packages can use the GNU versions 
instead of hoping that a system-supplied one meets the needed semantics.

However, from what I can see of 'configure' in gzip-1.3.9, it looks like 
it /should/ be checking in $PATH (unless I am looking in the wrong 
place). Can anyone else confirm whether or not $PATH is checked? If not, 
why not, and what packages are affected by this?

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Matthew
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