I will tonight try the 1.24...1.27. The 1.22 was just the first one I managed to build, while trying older versions after failing with 1.28. The 1.23 then failed.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tar uses Automake, which attempts to detect whether your 'make' doesn't >> support nested variables. Evidently this stuff isn't working for you. >> >> Rather than debug this for tar 1.23, can you please try tar 1.28? I vaguely >> recall that more-recent tar implementations have some fixes in this area, >> and would rather not waste time debugging already-fixed bugs. > > Sorry, forgot to mention that I tried 1.28, too. That dies on a > different error, much earlier in configure, the > rm-without-filenames-should-not-exit-with-failure, reported bug#22074: > (unixware 7.1.4 rm command) > > -- > There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is > 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen -- There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
