* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:09:10PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > 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 $TAR?
> Whichever you prefer is fine with me. I use neither. Well, why is tar then listed as a build prerequisite in bootstrap.conf? Have you had a bad experience with non-GNU tar in 'make dist'? > The rest of those changes look fine and passed a smoke test, > so I'll push it (but without the Signed-off-by line) unless You don't use Signed-off-by for coreutils? Why not? > you want to make further changes. Well, yes, depending on your answers to above, either remove the 'tar' line from bootstrap.conf, or add a line like test "$appvar" = TAR && appvar=AMTAR to check_versions and s/TAR/AMTAR/ in usage. Cheers, and thanks for the quick review, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
