gzip

Nifty Fedora Mitch niftyfedora at niftyegg.com
Tue Aug 11 04:22:32 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:44:05PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
> What is the difference in gzipping on a i386 and a x86_64 machine ?
> Both machine use the same version of gzip 1.3.12 but the
> gz file have a slightly different length (5 more bytes for the 64 bit  
> machine).
> In theory, I would not worry much, but lyx (x86_64) does not open the
> x86_64 gzipped files !!!!
>
> Thank.

Sounds like a bug...
First try 

       -t --test
              Test. Check the compressed file integrity.

Then file a bug...  it may be that lyx (which version of lyx) is finding a shared object
that is a problem so log the libs that both runtime link to.


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