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make install fails when GZIP defined in environment #5595
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"env GZIP=-n make install" fails, ending with:
gzip: /bin/gzip.gz: Permission denied
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'install-data' failed
make[1]: *** [install-data] Error 1
Makefile:166: recipe for target 'install-data' failed
make: *** [install-data] Error 1
It seems to be because a variable named "GZIP" is used in the makefiles.
(The existence of GZIP in the environment causes Make to export "GZIP" with it's value (the path to the gzip binary) but gzip itself expects to find command line options in it and fails.)