I now have my dist use xz(1) to compress compresible files, including
man and info pages. The breaks maxima's describe functionality.
Both emacs and info(1) are happy with the xz(1)ed info files.
(I was able to return back to using bzip2(1) just for maxima as an
interim solution.)
I looked through the code, but I couldn't determine how describe opened
the bzip2(1)ed (and presumably gzip(1)ed) info pages, so I couldn't write
a patch to add xz(1).
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
-JimC
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