Re: [PATCH v3] kheaders: make it possible to override TAR

From: Nicolas Schier
Date: Sun Jul 20 2025 - 15:59:47 EST


On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 09:08:20PM +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 16:10 -0400, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
[...]
> > I assume that other places that call tar within the build process are
> > not problematic because they do not use GNU specific options, such as
> > scripts/Makefile.package and scripts/package/install-extmod-build, or
> > maybe that people just have not tried building those packages with
> > bsdtar?
>
> Precisely. We focused on the one place which actually breaks our build,
> to avoid touching too many subsystems simultaneously. If this is
> desirable, I can look into replacing the other instances.

Without further investigation, I think it makes sense to use the same
tar-instance for all tar calls. Thus, I'd appreciate if you could replace
those as well.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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