Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > Does automake depend on 'tar' being GNU tar? If it will use any old > tar, then one would assume that it uses the default output format since > otherwise it might not know how to request some other format variant. > If it it used 'pax' then the output format can be certain.
The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which makes it hard for a default choice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
