[tex-live] Re: TL2004 - inst - installation
EP
parsons_dot_e at sympatico.ca
Sun Nov 21 22:23:24 CET 2004
EP wrote:
> Karl Berry wrote:
>
>> UnZip 5.51 of 22 May 2004, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C.
>> Spieler.
>> A new version of unzip et al. Very interesting.
>>
>> I download the original unzip 5.51 source from
>> http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/infozip/src/
>> and compiled it on a machine running Red Hat workstation 2.1, using
>> gcc 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-128.7.2) for Unix (Linux
>> ELF) on Nov 21 2004.
>>
>> The resulting unzip binary was able to unpack bin-amstex.i386-linux.zip
>> without an error:
>>
>> $ unzip -v $einst/archive/*amstex*i386-linux*
>> Archive: /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/testinst/archive/
>> inflating: bin/i386-linux/altpdfamstex linking:
>> bin/i386-linux/amstex -> pdfetex inflating:
>> texmf/lists/bin-amstex.i386-linux finishing deferred symbolic links:
>> bin/i386-linux/amstex -> pdfetex
>>
>> This seems to indicate that the bug is in some change that RH has made
>> to the original source, or (less likely) a compiler bug.
>>
>> Could you try compiling the original source on FC3 and see if that
>> works? And if it does, report the bug to RH?
>> Thanks,
>> k
>>
>>
> Unbelievable. I downloaded the original sources, as suggested, and
> unzipped one of the problem files. It works properly, just as it did
> for you. I don't know how FC can break something like unzip.
>
> Original unzip gives the following:
> $ unzip-5.51/unzip bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
> Archive: bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
> linking: bin/i386-linux/latex -> pdfetex
> inflating: texmf/lists/bin-latex.i386-linux
> finishing deferred symbolic links:
> bin/i386-linux/latex -> pdfetex
>
> FC3 unzip gives the following:
> $ unzip bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
> Archive: bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
> linking: bin/i386-linux/latex warning: symbolic link
> (bin/i386-linux/latex) failed
> error: zipfile probably corrupt (segmentation violation)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140263
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