=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Wilfredo_S=E1nchez?= wrote:
>
>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.
>
+1 for un-favoring G
--On Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:18 PM -0800 Wilfredo Sánchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So does anyone object if I un-favor GNU tar?
Nope.
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 d
+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
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
