There is nothing wrong with FreeBSD tar AFAIK. I use FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
and XFree86-4.1.0. XFree was installed using the binaries and following
the instructions. I would suggest reading the install instructions again.
It specifically states that you need to use the customized version of the
GNU tar utility called "extract", and that the .tgz files are packaged in
a platform-independent gzipped tar format.
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Chris BeHanna wrote:
|On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, TD - Sales Int'l Holland B.V. wrote:
|
|> I believe FreeBSD ships with another version of tar which according to
|> several docs of several progs I've read is broken. Don't ask me why it ain't
|> fixed yet then, I really don't know :-) you should be able to get gnu-tar at
|> www.gnu.org or at sites like www.freshmeat.net
|>
|> Anyways, due to the problems the BSD tar causes it won't allow you to use
|> it.
|
| FreeBSD's tar *is* GNU tar:
|
| > which tar
| /usr/bin/tar
| > tar --version
| GNU tar version 1.11.2
|
|At least, this is as of FreeBSD 4.4-RC2.
|
|
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