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Re: GCC 4.1.0 Released


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:24:18AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is required to unpack the source releases.  Other
>    versions of tar are likely to report errors or silently unpack the
>    file incorrectly.

Red Hat EL3 comes with tar 1.13.25 (though since the RPM package on the
machine I used is 1.13.25-13, it's likely that Red Hat has applied some
fixes to get up to rev 13).

I unpacked gcc-4.1.0.tar.bz2 with both the Red Hat tar package and
with the newest FSF tar (version 1.15.1).  There were no warning messages,
and diff -r reports that the two tars produce identical files.

What is the basis for the report that older tars don't work?



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