[tex-live] Re: TL2004 - inst - installation

[EP]

EP wrote:

> Karl Berry wrote:
>
>>            UnZip 5.51 of 22 May 2004, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. 
>> Spieler.
>>            A new version of unzip et al.  Very interesting.
>>
>> I download the original unzip 5.51 source from 
>>  http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/infozip/src/
>> and compiled it on a machine running Red Hat workstation 2.1, using
>> gcc 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-128.7.2) for Unix (Linux 
>> ELF) on Nov 21 2004.
>>
>> The resulting unzip binary was able to unpack bin-amstex.i386-linux.zip
>> without an error:
>>
>> $ unzip -v $einst/archive/*amstex*i386-linux*
>> Archive:  /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/testinst/archive/
>>  inflating: bin/i386-linux/altpdfamstex     linking: 
>> bin/i386-linux/amstex   -> pdfetex  inflating: 
>> texmf/lists/bin-amstex.i386-linux  finishing deferred symbolic links:
>>  bin/i386-linux/amstex  -> pdfetex
>>
>> This seems to indicate that the bug is in some change that RH has made
>> to the original source, or (less likely) a compiler bug.
>>
>> Could you try compiling the original source on FC3 and see if that
>> works?  And if it does, report the bug to RH?
>> Thanks,
>> k
>>  
>>
> Unbelievable.  I downloaded the original sources, as suggested, and 
> unzipped one of the problem files.  It works properly, just as it did 
> for you.  I don't know how FC can break something like unzip.
>
> Original unzip gives the following:
> $ unzip-5.51/unzip bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
>    Archive:  bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
>        linking: bin/i386-linux/latex    -> pdfetex
>      inflating: texmf/lists/bin-latex.i386-linux
>    finishing deferred symbolic links:
>      bin/i386-linux/latex   -> pdfetex
>
> FC3 unzip gives the following:
> $ unzip bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
>    Archive:  bin-latex.i386-linux.zip
>        linking: bin/i386-linux/latex    warning:  symbolic link 
> (bin/i386-linux/latex) failed
>    error:  zipfile probably corrupt (segmentation violation)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140263