Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kheaders: prefer gtar over tar for better compatibility | From | Sam James <> | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:01:39 +0000 |
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> On 25 Dec 2022, at 16:33, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 01:45 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> Instead of inserting a workaround like this, >> another way is to allow users to override a variable >> from the command line. >> >> >> See the top Makefile, for example, >> >> >> AWK = awk >> >> >> Then, users can do "make AWK=gawk" > > I'm sorry but are you requesting that I remove the check and use $TAR > instead, or allow overriding with TAR, and fall back to gtar or tar > respectively? If the former, should the script unconditionally assume > that TAR will be always set in the environment, or include fallback to > tar for when the script is run directly?
Masahiro, what do you reckon? Thanks.
Best, sam [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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