On 8 November 2012 11:42, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is this a known issue, or my "tar" install is wrong? >> >> yes it is known.. >> i had to install 7z support for tar. >> this is because MacOS is number of years behind the most recent release of >> tar, >> which supports 7z compressing by default :) > > so that has to be installed on OSX or not? > If we should update the HOWTOBUILD accordingly? > what i did is installed new tar from ports.
i don't know why cairo people decided that switching to 7z compression for their sources is right time. (if you look at releases, they did this recently) >> And with your config, i am not sure that default MacOS installation >> having unxz utility installed. >> If yes, then , of course it makes sense to change config to what is >> proposed by you. >> And if not, then it is better to leave a note in class & methods >> comments to indicate that people should >> install more recent tar utility. > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
