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

[jason andrade]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

> jason andrade <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > i'm unable to get tar 1.15.1 to compile on sunos 4.1.4.
>
> Is this because you really need tar 1.15.1 to run on SunOS 4.1.4,
> or simply because you're trying to help tar to become more portable?
> If the former, then I'd be interested to know the underlying application.
> If the latter, then it's probably not worth your time and aggravation,
> assuming nobody really needs the result.

definitely the latter.  i think there's still some sunos4 users out there
and we've put up a box to allow for testing/porting of software that some
people still want.  in the case of tar older versions compiled so i thought
i'd check if support was consciously dropped in the current release or if
it's just not worth the hassle of keeping support/testing on older platforms.

i can definitely understand your point though and i'm not likely to hassle
apart from it'd be nice if GNU projects could perhaps maintain a list of
architectures/oses that may have been supported but no longer compile/run,
the last version known to compile/run on that platform and i'd be willing 
to try to look after the list(s) if noone else wants to.

regards,

-jason