Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] call for testing: support for lzma archives

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
> On 11 September 2010 19:30, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On FreeBSD 8.1, the first succeeds. Adding libarchive or gtar (with
> > symlinks from bsdtar/gtar to tar), allows the second and third to
> > work. The last method needs a filename of "-" to read from stdin:
> >
> > xz -dc -F lzma foo.tar.lzma  | tar -xf -
> 
> At least it does when it's executed from a shell (either csh or bash):
> 
> %xz -dc -F lzma w32api-3.15-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma | tar x
> tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'
> 
> Running from the Makefile succeeds, however. Not sure what's going on here.

The command you are quoting uses "tar x" instead of "tar -xf -".
Maybe this is the cause?


Greets,
Volker

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