pkg/25141: IRIX 6.5.20 /usr/bsd/zcat forces compress (.Z)

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>Number:         25141
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       IRIX 6.5.20 /usr/bsd/zcat forces compress (.Z)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 11 15:33:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bas van Oostveen
>Release:        pkgsrc for irix
>Organization:
na
>Environment:
IRIX washu 6.5 04091958 IP32
(irix 6.5.20m)
>Description:
On a fresh install of Irix 6.5.20 and pkgsrc
when bootstrapping is successfully completed

The tool for extracting .tar.gz packages is:
defs.IRIX.mk:GZCAT?=            /usr/bsd/zcat

Recalling from 6.5.19 this worked, but in the
fresh 6.5.20 install /usr/bsd/zcat forces the
suffix .Z:
+ export extract_file
+ cd /usr/tmp/pkgsrc/devel/patch/work
+ /usr/bsd/zcat /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles//patch-2.5.4.tar.gz
+ /usr/pkg/bin/tar -xf -
/usr/pkgsrc/distfiles//patch-2.5.4.tar.gz.Z: No such file or directory

The manpage of zcat speaks briefly about gzip
files but fails to recognize them.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
for 6.5.20 systems there is a gzcat like many other os's

adding:
GZCAT=/usr/sbin/gzcat

fixes the problem.
i cannot check existance for pre 6.5.20 versions of gzcat
but for 6.5.20 the correct GZCAT should be /usr/sbin/gzcat
or a gzip decompressor from pkgsrc.
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