[16884] in Athena Bugs
Re: lynx -source ''
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Jun 11 11:44:32 1999
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To: testers@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:25:07 -0400."
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:44:20 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>I think that's gzip complaining when it tries to undo that gzipped file.
>
>If you try this on a file that isn't gzipped, does it work?
No, it's actually lynx complaining when it tries to run
gzip on the file (lynx can't find gzip). Unfortunately,
the problem is really weird. Bobbi-harlow and test.dialup
behave differently.
Examiniation of the lynx binary shows that it really is trying
to exec the program "@GZIP_PATH". Truss on solaris shows many
lines resembling
stat64("/mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_56/bin/@GZIP_PATH", 0xEFFFF040) Err#2 ENOENT
Examination of infoagents/src/lynx-2.7.1 suggests that this
may partially be due to a configuration error in how lynx was
built -- userdefs.h.in has three lines of "@IDENTIFIER", compared
to many lines of "@IDENTIFIER@". One of the questionable identifiers
is @GZIP_PATH, and "strings" reveals that @GZIP_PATH is inside the
sun4x_56/MIT-only/lynx-2.7.1. Unfortunately, it's also inside
all the other lynx binaries that I bothered to look at.
When I run lynx (dump source of a gzip URL) from test.dialup, things
work as I want: I get gzipped data dumped into a file. When I run
from bobbi-harlow or from oliver, lynx tries to ungzip the data
before saving it, and fails. I still don't know why lynx decides
to unzip on one machine, and not on the other. (Mind you, I don't
want it to unzip either.)
-jacob
contents-vnder-pressvre% machtype -v -P -L ; uname -a
Athena RVD (sun4) Version 8.3.4 Sun May 23 14:54:38 EDT 1999
Athena Server (sun4) Version 8.3.4 Mon May 31 00:56:37 EDT 1999
SunOS contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-13 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
bobbi-harlow% machtype -v -P -L ; uname -a
Athena RVD (sun4) Version 8.3.6 Thu Jun 10 17:31:18 EDT 1999
Athena Server (sun4) Version 8.3.6 Thu Jun 10 20:59:15 EDT 1999
SunOS bobbi-harlow.mit.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-13 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-4
