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Re: [Bug-tar] need to build a Windows tar
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] need to build a Windows tar |
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Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:03:56 -0800 |
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On 12/18/11 15:55, Steven Penny wrote:
> why is MinGW found many times in the "configure" file?
GNU Tar uses some library code that can run on MinGW, and some
of its configuration creeps into 'configure', but that doesn't
mean that GNU Tar itself runs on MinGW.
It'd be a lot of work to port GNU Tar to MinGW, I expect, and
this is so low priority that it'll probably never get done.
See "Portability between System Types"
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/System-Portability.html>.