On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:54:54PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:57:15PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:58:17PM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > > > cd a/b/c/ && /usr/bin/tar --force-local -jxf > > > ../../../../bindistprep/ghc-6.13.20091119-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 > > > tar: Option --force-local is not supported > [...] > > I'm not sure what the best thing to do here is. Perhaps validate should > > pass configure a --validating flag, and configure should fail if tar > > isn't GNU tar and that flag has been passed? > > Why not just use a command line that's more portable? I don't know what > that `--force-local' means
It tells tar that c:/mytar.tar is a local file, not a file on the host "c". Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
