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Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake |
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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:12:13 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> Does automake depend on 'tar' being GNU tar? If it will use any old
> tar, then one would assume that it uses the default output format since
> otherwise it might not know how to request some other format variant.
> If it it used 'pax' then the output format can be certain.
The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which
makes it hard for a default choice.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Javier Jardón, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake,
Russ Allbery <=
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Russ Allbery, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Javier Jardón, 2011/06/22
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/22
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2011/06/23
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/23
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2011/06/23