Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

[Russ Allbery]

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.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>