gzip

• Does it depend on bash and less (for its scripts)?
• Does it depend on diffutils, grep and util-linux (for its scripts)?
• Does its test suite depend on perl?
• Explicitly specify ac_cv_prog_LESS=less to configure?
• Alpine and Void pass DEFS=NO_ASM gl_cv_func_fflush_stdin=yes for muslto avoid text relocation

References

• https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/aports/patches/2545