Ken Moffat wrote: >> 2009-03-05 1.22 >> # Support for xz compression (--xz option) >> # Short option -J is reassigned as a shortcut for --xz >> >> (And support for xz compression, and the short option -J in place of >> --xz was only introduced in 1.22) >> > That matches my experience - back in the day, I had to upgrade tar > so that my own build scripts could use .xz tarballs directly. I've > still got the upgrade script, and it installed 1.23 which was then > the current version. I don't have the details of the version I was > upgrading from, but ISTR it was fairly recent - probably 1.20.
Perhaps we need to specify in host system requirements that tar --help|grep xz not be a null string. I suspect, but am not sure, that tar-1.18 would build OK with or without xz support. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
