On Oct 17, 2011, at 07:56, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:11 AM, François Laenen wrote: >> I'm feeling a bit desperate since I updated for Mac Os X Lion 10.7, just >> because the extraction process, the "tar" command, does not work anymore >> because it's a powerpc command! > > That is strange. IIRC macports won't use a tar command it installs, and 10.7 > should have installed a useable tar command.
MacPorts doesn't install any tar command. The gnutar port installs a command called gnutar, not tar. So it sounds like the system's tar command is the one that's faulty. To verify, use: lipo -info /usr/bin/tar On my Snow Leopard system, I have: $ lipo -info /usr/bin/tar Architectures in the fat file: /usr/bin/tar are: x86_64 i386 ppc7400 If you see output that doesn't include x86_64 and i386, then your tar command is not compatible with Lion and should be reinstalled, from your backups or by reinstalling the operating system. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
