Re: gzip problems aix/hpux

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thank you very much for your bug report.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:35:22AM -0600, Jim D Nelson wrote:
> I'm running into a problem gunzipping a oracle export file created on a 
> hpux11 server.  I'm running the gunzip on an aix4.3 server and get a error 
> "File too large"  .  Version is 1.2.4 on both boxes.  The gunzip will run 
> for a while and I can see it is creating a file over 2gb, the file is 
> actually larger than what gunzip -l shows -  1.5gb.  Shouldn't gunzip work 
> ok between different os's?  It seems ok on a small file.  Thanks in 
> advance!

I'm not the gzip maintainer, anyway I'd like to try to assist:

1) there is a development version of gzip, available from
        ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.5.tar.gz
could you please try it?  (On both sides.)

2) When recompiling the gzip (no matter which version), please use
        ./configure --enable-largefile
In should be on by default, though...

3) Could you use a third OS (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Sun or Cygwin) to determine
which side is the source of the problem (whether the gzipped file seems
to be correct or not)?

I hope (some of) these actions help us to find the bug and help you to
get a working version.

Thanks,
        Stepan Kasal