On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:07 PM Dmitry Goldin <dgol...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > Hi, > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, October 7, 2019 2:26 PM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> > wrote: > > > On Okt 07 2019, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:49:47PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > > > > > GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz > > > > tar: unrecognized option '--sort=name' > > > > Try `tar --help' or`tar --usage' for more information. > > > > make[2]: *** [kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 64 > > > > make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2 > > > > make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 > > > > $ tar --version > > > > tar (GNU tar) 1.26 > > > > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > > > > Wow that's an old version of tar. 2011? What happens if you use a more > > > modern one? > > > > That's the most modern I have available on that machine. > > Hmm. --sort was introduced in 1.28 in 2014. Do you think it would warrant > some sort of version check and fallback or is this something we can expect > the user to handle if their distribution happens to not ship anything more > recent? A few sensible workarounds come to mind.
I think the former. The release in 2014 is quite new, so we can not always expect it on the users' system. > > In any case, likely it would make sense to at least update to > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/changes.rst > with the minimal version we decide on. > > > Dmitry -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
