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Re: [Bug-tar] Software Proposal
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Software Proposal |
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:24:38 +0200 |
Hi Charlie,
On Monday, September 25, 2017 5:09:12 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote:
> As for building the library, I would compile the tar source against a possible
> paxutils library and gnulib (if it has a shared library). I would also have to
> install some of the tar headers.
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> Please let me know what you think.
I don't claim it could not work as you draw it. But the GNU tar binary IMO
should *use* the library which would be provided by GNU tar/GNU paxutils.
IOW, please build the binary against the new library (whereever it will live)
and not the other way around (library against tar's sources).
Pavel