> ../src/tar -cf test.tar -T FILE > ../src/tar: configure: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > ../src/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > which is kind of what I expected... Are you sure you tried it > with the latest tar from git head?
Hmm, pretty sure: 14:16:20 /tmp$ rm -rf tar 14:16:35 /tmp$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/tar.git &>/dev/null 14:16:53 /tmp$ cd tar 14:16:55 /tmp/tar$ ( ./bootstrap && ./configure && make -j5 ) &> /dev/null 14:19:07 /tmp/tar$ echo "-Cpo" >> FILE 14:19:13 /tmp/tar$ echo "configure" >> FILE 14:19:18 /tmp/tar$ ./src/tar -cf /tmp/test.tar -T FILE 14:19:30 /tmp/tar$ ./src/tar -tf /tmp/test.tar configure 14:19:39 /tmp/tar$ cat FILE -Cpo configure 14:19:44 /tmp/tar$