Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#49239 closed defect
"gzip: /usr/bin/gzip: unknown suffix -- ignored" error during MacPorts 2.3.4 build — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | thecloud@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 2.3.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Steps to reproduce:
$ export GZIP="-9" $ tar xvzf MacPorts-2.3.4.tar.gz -C /tmp/ $ cd /tmp/MacPorts-2.3.4/ $ ./configure && make
If the GZIP environment variable is set to a whitespace-separated list of options (as is documented on the man page for gzip), the configure script for MacPorts fails with this error:
configure: === extracting vendor/tcl8.5.15-src.tar.gz gzip: /usr/bin/gzip: unknown suffix -- ignored configure: error: tarball vendor/tcl8.5.15-src.tar.gz did not extract to vendor/tcl8.5.15/unix
Workaround: $ unset GZIP
Diagnosis: The configure script (incorrectly) expects that if the GZIP environment variable is set, it contains a path to the gzip binary. This directly conflicts with the documented contents of the GZIP variable, as understood by /usr/bin/gzip. Unsetting GZIP shouldn't be necessary to build MacPorts successfully, since it shouldn't overload the contents of an existing variable.