On May 17, 2001, "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do you know which compiler was used to build this version of GNU tar?
> Looks like gcc 2.8.1.
Gee. That's dead broken. First thing I'd do would be to get GNU tar
1.13.19 built with a newer compiler. But I can tell from personal
experience that, even when built with GCC 2.95.3, on Solaris 7/x86, it
wouldn't even be able to do estimates properly. So I stayed with 1.12
for now. Investigating the actual problem is in my to-do list.
I can also tell from personal experience that I haven't had trouble
with GNU tar 1.13.17 on GNU/Linux/x86, but I still haven't been able
to do backups reliably with 1.13.19 (it will generally abort part-way
through the back-up; I suspect a network problem, but a bug in GNU tar
still isn't ruled out)
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