Re: [PATCH] kheaders: prefer gtar over tar for better compatibility

[Sam James]

Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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>> On 17 Jan 2023, at 19:01, Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On 25 Dec 2022, at 16:33, Michał Górny <mgorny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 01:45 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>> Instead of inserting a workaround like this,
>>>> another way is to allow users to override a variable
>>>> from the command line.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> See the top Makefile, for example,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> AWK             = awk
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Then, users can do "make AWK=gawk"
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry but are you requesting that I remove the check and use $TAR
>>> instead, or allow overriding with TAR, and fall back to gtar or tar
>>> respectively?  If the former, should the script unconditionally assume
>>> that TAR will be always set in the environment, or include fallback to
>>> tar for when the script is run directly?
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>> 
>> Masahiro, what do you reckon? Thanks.
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> Ping.

ping^2. We'd really love to get this in to fix a bug for our users in
Gentoo.

>
>> Best,
>> sam
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