Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.23 build broke in Unixware 7.1.4

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Tar uses Automake, which attempts to detect whether your 'make' doesn't
> support nested variables.  Evidently this stuff isn't working for you.
>
> Rather than debug this for tar 1.23, can you please try tar 1.28?  I vaguely
> recall that more-recent tar implementations have some fixes in this area,
> and would rather not waste time debugging already-fixed bugs.

Sorry, forgot to mention that I tried 1.28, too.  That dies on a
different error, much earlier in configure, the
rm-without-filenames-should-not-exit-with-failure, reported bug#22074:
(unixware 7.1.4 rm command)

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