On 20/11/2009 18:51, Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:46:08PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Do we really have to rely on a specific version of tar?  Dependencies
like that always come back to bite you.

It sounds like the --force-local option is required iff tar is GNU tar.
  So we should have a configure test for that.

Or, as I already wrote, use a pipe with bzip2 -cd ... | tar xf -

Done.

Simon

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