Hi Brion,

I don't know anything about Macs but as far as I can remember the install 
script handles them separately -actually I saw there three branches: 
win/linux/mac- so the tar/gtar changes for linux won't affect the mac 
branch I guess.

Regards,
r0ller

2016. március 29., kedd 21:59:38 UTC+2 időpontban Brion Vibber a következőt 
írta:
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:04 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2) As far as I know, tar on NetBSD is the normal BSD tar and gtar is the 
>> GNU tar. While it's the other way around on linux: tar is the GNU tar and 
>> the BSD tar is called bsdtar:) That's why I rather changed the call from 
>> tar to gtar (instead of looking for an option that is similar to the one 
>> that was unaccepted by BSD tar) in order to retain the GNU tar behaviour.
>>
>
> Note that Mac OS X also comes with BSD tar as 'tar' but doesn't provide 
> GNU tar, so there's no 'gtar' available there. However it might be extended 
> with an option that isn't in the NetBSD version... probably the '--strip' 
> option?
>
> Might be best to do a check for 'gtar' and use that if present, but fall 
> back to 'tar' if it's not; that should work pretty reliably across BSD and 
> GNU/Linux variants.
>
> -- brion
>

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