Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] call for testing: support for lzma archives

[Tony Theodore]

On 11 September 2010 19:30, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
> On FreeBSD 8.1, the first succeeds. Adding libarchive or gtar (with
> symlinks from bsdtar/gtar to tar), allows the second and third to
> work. The last method needs a filename of "-" to read from stdin:
>
> xz -dc -F lzma foo.tar.lzma  | tar -xf -

At least it does when it's executed from a shell (either csh or bash):

%xz -dc -F lzma w32api-3.15-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma | tar x
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'

Running from the Makefile succeeds, however. Not sure what's going on here.

Tony