From: Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: OSR5 install of 971031
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 09:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971103111542.55665@dgii.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17765.878575224@hurl.cygnus.com>
> > The "make install" will call on SCO's /usr/bin/tar if the
> > PATH variable is not right. The "tar" in the install needs to
> > be GNU tar, since it uses a command line switch which is not
> > recognized by SCO tar.
> Does SCO have cpio? If so that might be a better choice than
> tar in this situation.
Yes, OpenServer has cpio, as mandated by SVID II and X/Open 1992.
It also provides pax as preferred by X/open 1992.
Though I haven't done a 'make install', it looks like TAROUTOPTS
will choke on the 'B' option, which appears to be a non-standard
extention.
Isn't it jusr really sad that 25+ years later, there isn't a
portable, efficient, safe way to copy an arbitrary directory
tree in UNIX?
RJL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-03 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-03 6:23 Bill Walker
1997-11-03 8:43 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-03 9:43 ` Robert Lipe [this message]
1997-11-03 16:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-03 16:27 ` Joern Rennecke
1997-11-04 6:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-04 7:38 ` cpio vs. tar. was: " Robert Lipe
1997-11-04 11:52 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-04 17:31 ` teunis
1997-11-04 17:31 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-04 16:09 ` J. Kean Johnston
1997-11-04 17:02 ` Gavin Koch
1997-11-03 9:43 ` Robert Lipe
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