Christian Weisgerber wrote: > NEWS for GNU grep 2.10 says: > > | xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing > | only .tar.xz files is enough. > > FWIW, xz cannot be built with GCC 2.95 (or older), making it > unavailable on some platforms such as OpenBSD/vax.
Thanks for the report. This is the first I've heard about anyone being unable to build xz. However, I have to admit that whether OpenBSD/vax is a reasonable portability target seems debatable. One might ask why OpenBSD/vax is content with the decade-old gcc-2.95, yet still wants to use the very latest grep ;-) Seriously though, I asked Lasse Collin (xz author) about this issue and he said he thought there was an OpenBSD patch to make xz build even when you're stuck with gcc-2.95. If you find it, please post it to the xz-utils mailing list: tukaani.org/xz/lists.html For now, I suggest you download the tarball to some other system and uncompress it before copying it to your ancient vax.
