On 28/03/14 13:36, Nathan Scott wrote:
Hi Ken,
Following up from our IRC chat earlier - the --transform
issue I mentioned (reason for using GNU tar) turns out to
be a bit uglier than I has hoped it'd be to resolve, and
I'm wondering if we can solve this another way.
It turns out Mac OS X has GNU tar, its just called gnutar
and wasn't in the search path in the script. I've added
it, so I think Mac builds are OK. ...
Yep, my Mac OS X build just worked fine, thanks.
...Which leaves the other
members of the BSD family - they do seem to have one but
not installed by default, I think (basing that on poking
around on a FreeBSD box). I *believe* "pkg install gtar"
will resolve this ...
FreBSD is OK, I've installed gtar there and made PCP packages
I have an unresolved issue on NetBSD, but gtar is installed now and this
seems to be something else (needs more investigation).
Since we already have a deep GNU-make dependency, is this
something that we could live with for tar also, to make
our lives easier? Otherwise, yeah, we need to implement
that very convenient option in a cross-platform way (bit
of a pain, really).
I'm OK to stick with gtar.
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