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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: FYI: be careful to follow links during libltdl install [libtool--release--2.0--patch-51] |
| Date: | Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:10:54 -0600 (CST) |
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Noah Misch wrote:
On the other hand, the extraction invocation probably does need `o' to make Unix tar reset file ownership (e.g., when an unprivileged user builds libtool and then installs it as root).
On my Gentoo Linux box (which uses GNU tar 1.14, released in 2004) the traditional meaning of -o has been lost (even though it appears in the help output) resulting in a warning for every single file extracted and an error return code when the program completes. Discarding the legacy meaning (which is still the norm for many/most tar programs and often the only such option available) seems like a mistake to me.
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