On 05/31/10 10:16 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
I've rolled up R-2.11.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is an update release, which fixes a number of mostly minor issues. The most annoying one was probably the problem with format.POSIXlt causing C stack overflow on long date vectors. See the full list of changes below.CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.11.1 INSTALLATION o Command 'gnutar' is preferred to 'tar' when configure sets TAR. This is needed on Mac OS 10.6, where the default tar, bsdtar 2.6.2, has been reported to produce archives with illegal extensions to tar (according to the POSIX standard).
Note 'gnutar' is not part of POSIX, so this might cause more problems than it solves.
On Solaris, /usr/sfw/bin/gtar is the GNU version of tar, though I don't know for sure if one can guarantee that will always be on all Solaris systems. It is certainly the case of a full-install on Solaris 10 on SPARC, and I find that file exists on my OpenSolaris 06/2009 x64 release running on my Sun Ultra 27, though whether it actually exists on a system which has not had it specifically installed I don't know.
I would have thought the best decision was to get people to put a working version of 'tar' in their path first - not use some non-standard name.
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