Re: gzip fails to build from sources on Debian GNU/Linux

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for the bug report.  Does this fix your problem?

* deflate.c: Export nice_match to assembler.
(static_unless_ASMV): New macro.
(nice_match): Use it.
diff --git a/deflate.c b/deflate.c
index b1fafde..6a75e73 100644
--- a/deflate.c
+++ b/deflate.c
@@ -226,10 +226,17 @@ typedef struct config {
    ush max_chain;
 } config;

+#ifdef ASMV
+# define static_unless_ASMV
+#else
+# define static_unless_ASMV static
+#endif
+
 #ifdef  FULL_SEARCH
 # define nice_match MAX_MATCH
 #else
-  static int nice_match; /* Stop searching when current match exceeds this */
+  /* Stop searching when current match exceeds this */
+  static_unless_ASMV int nice_match;
 #endif

 local config configuration_table[10] = {