Re: [Bug-tar] --auto-compress command line option

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Denis Excoffier <address@hidden> writes:

>3) i suggest that the location of the compress/gzip/bzip2/lzma programs
>be settable at configure time, and that the tar executable uses the PATH
>only when not set at configure time or not found in the indicated place.

Why should one want that to be done?

Please, don't do this, as it would bar users from using a version of the
compress programs of their own, should they need to.

Why not just relay on the PATH environment variable?  To have the PATH
variable set right, just use a login shell, when issuing the tar command.
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