Re: [Lzip-bug] Can't Compile Lzip

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Bryan,

Bryan Ilaga wrote:
> Hello! I'm trying to compile Lzip using MSYS with MinGW 4.8.1. I followed the 
> instructions carefully but I can't really compile it. I always get an error. 
> What should I do?

Thanks for reporting this. Your system seems to have two problems:

> warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]

The compiler supports the 'long long int' type, but does not recognize 
the 'll' modifier in the printf function, which is somewhat 
contradictory. What version of GCC are you using?

Yoy may try something like this with the compiled lzip
  lzip -cv file | wc -c
and
  lzip -cdvvvv file.lz | wc -c
to verify that printf shows the right sizes.


> testing lzip-1.17.........out msg differ: char 50, line 1
> -out msg differ: char 55, line 1
> -................
> tests failed.
> make: *** [check] Error 1

This is the Windows 'text mode bug'. Lzip checks that it reports the 
message "Bad magic number (file not in lzip format).\n" when commanded 
to decompress a file not in lzip format. The problem is that Windows 
changes the "\n" to a "\r\n", making the test to fail.

I'll try to find a fix for this, but the rest of the test passed fine. 
You should have no problem using lzip-1.17, except maybe because of the 
printf problem above.

(Please, next time use a mail program that respects line breaks. Your 
message was automatically deleted from the list because it looked like 
spam, and I had to edit it to make any sense out of it).


Best regards,
Antonio.