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

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

I will tonight try the 1.24...1.27.

The 1.22 was just  the first one I managed to build, while trying
older versions after failing with 1.28.  The 1.23 then failed.


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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)
>
> --
> There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is
> 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen



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