Hi Jan, But when you set `tar_pax` in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, this comes out:
I surmise that's left over from when the pax support was added. I don't see any reason not to use $(TAR) there now. It presumably shouldn't be too hard to fix. If you can devise a patch (and ideally test case), that would be great. Else, it's on my list .. someday :( ... Also, ${AMTAR} seems totally unused. Why is it even there? As far as I can see, it is a relic of when AMTAR was used. It seems it was added and then later removed in 1999: 1999-06-01 Alexandre Oliva <ol...@dcc.unicamp.br> ... * m4/init.m4: Remove AMTAR-related stuff. ... As you say, I see no use of it anywhere in the current source tree, apart from its being defined in m4/tar.m4. As far as I can see, can be removed too. --thanks, karl.