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Re: [PATCH] Update install document to require GNU tar 1.14

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update install document to require GNU tar 1.14
References: <200602241916.k1OJGiD22514@makai.watson.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602242029560.18266@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Given the requirement for tar 1.14, we could start generating POSIX-2001 
> tar archives (tar --format=posix) and so potentially support unpacking by 
> some non-GNU implementations.  (1.14 is the first GNU tar version 
> supporting POSIX tar format.)  I don't think this change would be a good 
> idea for 4.1.0, but we could perhaps make it for the mainline 
> maintainer-scripts.

gcc.gnu.org has GNU tar 1.14, so that seems worth a try, though I do
not remember any user requests for this.

I agree that this is something for mainline only at this point (and 
perhaps in general).  Are you going to make this change?

Gerald

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