Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > I know bootstrap isn't meant to necessarily be portable. But it's just > so much more comfortable to be able to use a git tree also on non-GNU > systems, that e.g. have GNU tools installed with a 'g' program prefix > (in this case, FreeBSD). > > There is one question I have on this: coreutils requires 'tar', my patch > will allow $TAR as GNU tar. However, Automake's macros will honor > $AMTAR only, not $TAR. Is this where tar is used, or are there other > instances I am not aware of? If yes, should I fix check_versions to > check $AMTAR instead of $TAR?
Thanks, Ralf. Whichever you prefer is fine with me. I use neither. The rest of those changes look fine and passed a smoke test, so I'll push it (but without the Signed-off-by line) unless you want to make further changes. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
