From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23865 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2006 23:00:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 23855 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Feb 2006 23:00:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (HELO vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at) (128.131.111.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:00:30 +0000 Received: from [128.131.111.48] (pulcherrima [128.131.111.48]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012F213788; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:00:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: "Joseph S. Myers" cc: David Edelsohn , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update install document to require GNU tar 1.14 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200602241916.k1OJGiD22514@makai.watson.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg01876.txt.bz2 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