Hello,
Here is a trivial patch to add support for `lzma' compression of Info pages.
The `info' and `install-info' programs are modified, as is the documentation.
regards,
Ben
diff -uNrd texinfo.orig/doc/info-stnd.texi texinfo/doc/info-stnd.texi
--- texinfo.orig/doc/info-stnd.texi 2007-12-18 12:53:22.000000000 -0500
+++ texinfo/doc/info-stnd.texi 2007-12-27 15:16:34.000000000 -0500
@@ -197,12 +197,12 @@
@file{.info}, @file{-info}, @file{/index}, and @file{.inf}.}. For every
known extension, Info looks for a compressed file, if a regular file
isn't found. Info supports files compressed with @code{gzip},
[EMAIL PROTECTED], @code{compress} and @code{yabba} programs; it calls
[EMAIL PROTECTED], @code{bunzip2}, @code{uncompress} and @code{unyabba},
-accordingly, to decompress such files. Compressed Info files are
-assumed to have @file{.z}, @file{.gz}, @file{.bz2}, @file{.Z}, or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extensions, possibly in addition to one of the known Info
-files [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS-DOS version allows for the Info
[EMAIL PROTECTED], @code{compress}, @code{yabba} and @code{lzma} programs;
+it calls @code{gunzip}, @code{bunzip2}, @code{uncompress}, @code{unyabba},
+and @code{lzma} accordingly, to decompress such files. Compressed Info
+files are assumed to have @file{.z}, @file{.gz}, @file{.bz2}, @file{.Z},
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or @file{.lzma} extensions, possibly in addition to one of the
+known Info files [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS-DOS version allows for the Info
extension, such as @code{.inf}, and the short compressed file
extensions, such as @file{.z} and @file{.gz}, to be merged into a single
extension, since DOS doesn't allow more than a single dot in the
diff -uNrd texinfo.orig/info/filesys.c texinfo/info/filesys.c
--- texinfo.orig/info/filesys.c 2007-12-02 20:38:42.000000000 -0500
+++ texinfo/info/filesys.c 2007-12-27 15:13:04.000000000 -0500
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
{ ".z", "gunzip" },
{ ".Z", "uncompress" },
{ ".Y", "unyabba" },
+ { ".lzma", "unlzma" },
#ifdef __MSDOS__
{ "gz", "gunzip" },
{ "z", "gunzip" },
diff -uNrd texinfo.orig/util/install-info.c texinfo/util/install-info.c
--- texinfo.orig/util/install-info.c 2007-12-02 20:38:43.000000000 -0500
+++ texinfo/util/install-info.c 2007-12-27 15:14:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -654,6 +654,14 @@
#else
*compression_program = "bzip";
#endif
+ else if (data[0] == ']' && data[1] == '\0' && data[2] == '\0')
+ {
+#ifndef STRIP_DOT_EXE
+ *compression_program = "lzma.exe";
+#else
+ *compression_program = "lzma";
+#endif
+ }
else
*compression_program = NULL;
