Bug in unzip instructions

Alexander E. Patrakov semzx at newmail.ru
Mon Aug 4 04:40:01 MDT 2003


Currently the book recommends to make "linux" and "linux_shlibz" targets while 
compiling unzip. I object against building linux_shlibz at all. Reasons are 
outlined below.

1) While making "linux_shlibz", the unzip binary gets overwritten with a small 
program that prints some messages about versions and then calls a function 
from libunzip.so. These messages about version numbers confuse Midnight 
Commander 4.6.0, and if I tap Enter on a zip file and copy all files to 
another panel, some junk about unzip versions is appended to them. Without 
shlibz, everything is OK.

2) Nobody needs libunzip.so.

This broken (?) unzip may well also be responsible for OpenOffice installer 
not working, although I didn't check that. I can say that I deviated from the 
book while compiling Unzip and I have a working (albeit old) installation of
OpenOffice 1.0.2.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov




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