"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Check star for comparison and you will see that wihout using relative
> > paths, it is possible to be faster than GNU tar and with star you are
> > even able to compare:
> >
> > star -c -time . > /dev/null
> >
> > uses long paths, while:
> >
> > star -c -time -find . > /dev/null
> >
> > uses short filenames.
>
> I wanted to try this for myself on solaris2.7, so I compiled the
> latest "release" version of star that I found, star-1.4.3, and with
Just use the latest release and not something that is many years old.
> Then I tried compiling the prerelease version 1.5a70 to see if -find
> works there but it doesn't build a star binary. I followed the
> README.solaris instructions, namely eliminating /usr/ucb from my path,
> setting LC_ALL and using /usr/ccs/bin/make. It runs without error
> configuring and building stuff but I can't see any star executable in
> there. (I compiled star with gcc-3.4 in case that matters.)
Read the documentation or watch the make outout,
it of course builds a usable binary, it is just called
'star_fat' as it includes support for the CLI of:
- GNU tar
- cpio
- tar
- Sun tar
Jörg
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