[He would appear to be right, that in CVS 1.9, -b has this effect.
The "emergency fix" seems fairly plausible (as an emergency fix).  I
still want to fix it for real via the gzip library.

The gzip library fix was checked in 20 Oct 1998.

-kingdon]

Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:03:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andre Doherty <doherty@thonon.inra.fr>
To: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@cyclic.com>
Subject: Re: cvs-1.10 : bindir option misdisappear !



I see. Anyway the pb still remains. An emergency fix was to add a dirty 
putenv("PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin"); in the very beginning of the
program, since i don't want to modify the global basic environnement.

But you're wrong when you say that the -b option has never affected
gzip/gunzip.  Check version 1.9.(:-)) The -b argument was then used to set
a environment var RCSBIN (main.c:759), which was later added to the path
(server.c:3672) . I agree, its aim was not to help running gzip/gunzip but
it could be used as a possibility to add extra directories to the
server's PATH.

I ll be waiting for the "correct fix" :-)

Regards,

Andre

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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Jim Kingdon wrote:

> > But, since a server comes with a really light environnement, some
> > directories may be missing (eg. path for gzip/gunzip).
> 
> The -b option has never affected gzip/gunzip, as far as I know.
> 
> The correct fix is to handle gzip and gunzip internally, as we already
> do for the client (see gunzip_and_write and friends in src/zlib.c).
>