Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar for solaris

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Chuck Swiger <address@hidden> writes:
> > GNU tar compiles from source just fine on Solaris,
>
> Actually, that's not quite true for tar 1.19 due to a last-minute
> minor configuration bug in the distribution; see
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-10/msg00013.html>.

Well, v1.18 compiled just fine on Solaris, anyway.  :-)

> You can work around the problem by configuring with something like the
> following shell command:
>
> CC='gcc -DCHAR_BIT=8' ./configure
>
> The problem will be fixed in the next tar version.

...but thanks for the note about 1.19, and thanks for your work on  
GNU tar, Paul.

--
-Chuck