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bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:51:52 +0300 |
> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:46:11 +0200
> Cc: 27956@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> `gzip' reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
> (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
> extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
> modification times.
>
> What version of gzip did you use?
>
> Ok, you are right. There is a version 1.6 of gzip.exe distributed with
> TeXLive that has interfered here.
> It doesn't preserve timestamps when compressing files. This is definitely a
> problem, but not in emacs.
>
> The 1.8 gzip.exe from MSYS2 does preserve timestamps.
Heh, I have MSYS Gzip 1.3.5 and GnuWin32 Gzip 1.2.4 here, and they
both preserve timestamps. So I guess what you have is some botched
port of Gzip.
> Sorry for the noise.
No sweat. Closing.