On Wed, 07 Nov 2001, Adam Fedor  wrote:

> >> I am running on a FreeBSD 4.4 system.  I made a patch to the configure
> >> script in core/make to set the TAR macro to 'tar' if the OS is FreeBSD.
> >> I know this is a hack but it works.  After making this change, I didn't
> >> have any trouble making all of GNUstep.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to track down the problem
> >> with gtar.  I am including the patch I made if you are interested in
> >> it.
> >
> > I added this. Someday it would be nice to figure out why...
>
> Actually I may have been hasty with this. I think the original reason
> this test was put in was for FreeBSD (Does anyone know for sure?). So I
> may need to take it out....

Yes, I've added the test for FreeBSD that have a different tar not completely
compatible with latest gnutar (v1.12).

I remember that bsd tar causes problems when installing GSWeb (with gsweb
framework implementation).
I don't know now but they remain not compatible.

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     Mirko  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   (NeXTmail, MIME)
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