Re: [Bug-tar] Speeding up GNU tar file I/O ?

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > Check star for comparison and you will see that wihout using relative
 > paths, it is possible to be faster than GNU tar and with star you are
 > even able to compare:
 > 
 >      star -c -time . > /dev/null
 > 
 > uses long paths, while:
 > 
 >      star -c -time -find . > /dev/null
 > 
 > uses short filenames.

I wanted to try this for myself on solaris2.7, so I compiled the
latest "release" version of star that I found, star-1.4.3, and with
"star -c -find . > /dev/null" I got:

        star: 'ind' is the archive. Not dumped.

I take that to mean that this got interpreted as -f<file> where <file>
is "ind".

Then I tried compiling the prerelease version 1.5a70 to see if -find
works there but it doesn't build a star binary.  I followed the
README.solaris instructions, namely eliminating /usr/ucb from my path,
setting LC_ALL and using /usr/ccs/bin/make.  It runs without error
configuring and building stuff but I can't see any star executable in
there.  (I compiled star with gcc-3.4 in case that matters.)

Any help would be appreciated.

                Thanks,
                --Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi                  address@hidden