From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update install document to require GNU tar 1.14
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0602242357510.4245@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 19:16 David Edelsohn
2006-02-24 20:33 ` Joseph S. Myers
2006-02-24 23:00 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2006-02-24 23:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2006-03-01 6:39 ` Ranjit Mathew
2006-02-24 20:33 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2006-02-27 7:39 ` Mark Mitchell
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