From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13962 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2006 23:42:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 13954 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Feb 2006 23:42:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from potter.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:42:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 19058 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2006 23:42:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 24 Feb 2006 23:42:16 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FCmZj-0002cH-8n; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:42:15 +0000 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:42:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Gerald Pfeifer 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/msg01881.txt.bz2 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > 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've seen plenty of bug reports from users using non-GNU tar. I'd expect at least some of them have tar implementations supporting POSIX-2001 archives. > I agree that this is something for mainline only at this point (and > perhaps in general). Are you going to make this change? I wasn't planning to, it's just an idea for discussion. -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ jsm@polyomino.org.uk (personal mail) joseph@codesourcery.com (CodeSourcery mail) jsm28@gcc.gnu.org (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)