Re: [Bug-tar] OS X Build errors

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Monday 04 of August 2014 01:23:39 Dominyk Tiller wrote:
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> Gnu-Tar seems to have some fairly major build issues on OS X. The
> previous version installs and works fine

Dominyk, the previous version 1.27.1 should fail same way, IMO.  The code
for xattrs is there for some time.

On Sunday 03 of August 2014 23:42:59 Paul Eggert wrote:
> Dominyk Tiller wrote:
> > Any ideas on this?
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> Apparently the OS X folks have a different interface for setxattr etc.,
> one that's not compatible with GNU/Linux.  Please try this to work
> around the problem:
> ./configure --without-xattrs

There is unluckily needed to disable building of xattr-at.c, at least
temporarily (because that tend to be gnulib candiate).  But there needs to
be done some additional work (XATTR_NOFOLLOW vs. l*attr, etc.).

Dominyk or Denis, could you check attached patch?  Note that it requires
autoreconf first.  After that, --without-xattrs for configure should not
be needed.

Also cc-ing Anthony, as that patch removes part of his patch needed for
Gentoo builds (it should not break the build hopefully, but I'm not
completely sure).

Pavel

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