From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07656 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:30:23 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01612; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:24:50 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:24:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 09:24 EDT From: Carlos Carvalho To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: compatibility problem with bash? In-Reply-To: <199610290129.CAA01952@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> References: <199610290129.CAA01952@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> Resent-Message-ID: <"Z7q783.0.6P.1cUTo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2293 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@cs.elte.hu) wrote on 29 October 1996 02:29: >> I linked /bin/sh to /bin/zsh 3.0.1. However, when installing certain >> specific debian packages in linux I get the following error: >> >> Setting up gzip (1.2.4-11) ... >> install-info: read gzip -d > >> The problem doesn't happen if sh is a link to bash. I can get more >> details if necessary. > >I would really appreciate if you can send me more details. From that I >cannot tell anything. Note that zsh is not fully compatible with bash but >it tries to be compatible with POSIX. Please send this install-info script >and tell me as much as possuble about it knowing that I've never used >debian of dpkg. Well, here's the installation script: #! /bin/sh set -e install-info --quiet --section "General Commands" "General Commands" \ /usr/info/gzip.info.gz I put a -x in the set command, and it does work well. However, install-info is a perl script! I could post it, but it has 352 lines... I can send it personally if necessary. Carlos