Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.15.1 doesn't compile on sunos 4.1.4

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
 
> Could you explain why you don't like to support a OS version that
> has been published in 1994 while at the same time still using
> an default archive format that has been reported to the GNU tar
> maintainers as being the cause of compatibility problems between
> 1994 & 1994?

The default format of archives created by GNU tar is set at configure
time, so there's no use arguing about it.
 
> If GNU tar would by default create POSIX.1-1988 tar archives, 
> I had no problems with the /usr/gnu/bin/tar link. So let me ask
> again: is there a chance for this move in gtar?

Should Solaris maintainers/packagers wish to use POSIX.1-1988 format,
they'd configure tar as follows:

  ./configure DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT=USTAR


-Sergey