Roman Leshchinskiy:
> On 19/11/2009, at 23:57, 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
>>> Usage:
>>> List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
>>> Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
>>> Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
>>> Help:    tar --help
>>> make: *** [all] Error 1
>> 
>> What version of OS X is this?
> 
> Ah. I've upgraded to Snow Leopard. It turns out that in Snow Leopard tar is 
> bsdtar which is a change from Leopard which had tar = gnutar. But 
> /usr/bin/gnutar still exists so I guess we should just have configure pick 
> that one. I'm a bit surprised that I'm the first one to trip over this, 
> Manuel has been validating on Snow Leopard for quite some time now. Manuel, 
> doesn't this happen for you?

I am rarely validating on my laptop, but usually use our Xserve (which is much 
faster), which still runs Leopard.  I guess that is why I didn't tip over it.

Do we really have to rely on a specific version of tar?  Dependencies like that 
always come back to bite you.

Manuel

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