Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > ... I got some copies of tar.exe lying > around, one from a git installation and a second one from Msys, but > both don't work even if $ENV{TAR} points at them :/
What goes wrong exactly? The test I proposed ("tar cf foo.tar foo") doesn't seem like it will catch the actual problem, which IIUC is that these tars don't like a drive letter in the file name(s). Can we arrange to strip that in what's passed to $TAR ? If not, it seems like we have to test for exactly that point (ie Windows-only test). regards, tom lane