On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 10:49:28PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > Could you expand on why it doesn't work? As far as I can tell tar is shipped > with windows these days, and %SYSTEMROOT%/system32/tar.exe should point to > that tar?
FWIW, my Windows 10 VM, that I got from Microsoft a couple of years ago, does not ship it in this location, simply, even after updates. And I am pretty sure that you cannot assume that this will exist at this location for all the Windows environments we still support the compilation of PG. My thing runs Visual 2015 that we still support, so, if possible, I'd like to keep it around a bit more as it is useful to check and test incompatibilities and/or bug fixes, and it has caught problems in the past. I got some copies of tar.exe lying around, one from a git installation and a second one from Msys, but both don't work even if $ENV{TAR} points at them :/ -- Michael
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