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Billy's gzip conversion.

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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
2
3<sect2>
4<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
5
6<para>Prepare Gzip to be compiled:</para>
7
8<para><screen><userinput>
9patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
10./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
11cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
12sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in
13</userinput></screen></para>
14
15<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
16
17<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
18
19<para>And finish off installing the package:</para>
20
21<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
22
23<para>Move the Gzip binaries to the root partition:</para>
24
25<para><screen><userinput>
26mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin &amp;&amp;
27rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat} &amp;&amp;
28ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip &amp;&amp;
29ln -s gzip /bin/zcat &amp;&amp;
30ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen></para>
31
32</sect2>
33
34<sect2>
35<title>Command explanations</title>
36
37<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-1.2.4b.patch:</userinput>
38This patch fixes a buffer overflow that occurs when a filename is
39longer than 1020 characters.</para>
40
41<para><userinput>
42cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
43sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in</userinput>
44Change the default installation directory for Gzip so it will be
45installed on the root partition.</para>
46
47
48</sect2>
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