+1 from me. david ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilfredo Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Apache HTTPD Developers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:18 PM Subject: binbuild.sh favors GNU tar
> binbuild.sh seems to prefer gtar to tar for archiving. This doesn't > actually happen on Mac OS X because on Darwin, it's 'gnutar', not > 'gtar'. > > This is trivial to fix, except that I'd rather not use GNU tar if I > don't have to. The reason being that GNU tar generates > non-POSIX-compliant tar archives, which when unpacked with POSIX tar > potentially gives you a bogus @LongLink directory. I'd rather use a > POSIX tar program which both POSIX tar and GNU tar can unpack properly. > The only drawback there is if we have really long path names, POSIX > tar craps out where GNU tar doesn't. I don't think we have really long > path names, though. > > So does anyone object if I un-favor GNU tar? > > Looks like the real reason we favor it is to use the -z option > instead of having to run gzip after the fact. Running gzip in a pipe > chain would do as well, though. > > -wsv > >
