[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44007] tar %!xtest fails on Windows due to filesep issues and tar.exe issues

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #33, bug #44007 (project octave):

@Rik, comment #31:
AFAICS only tar.m and unpack.m would require ispc() checks.
I'm not aware of other places in Octave's code where a tar binary is called
directly.

So I think it may still be easier to use the patch I made in comment #2, to
simply overhaul the file / directory path before feeding it to msys tar.exe.
That'll avoid having to maintain our own version of tar/bsdtar, and will
preserve some independence of  mxe builds.
For tar.m the fix is already there; for unpack.m (related) I think I've
spotted a good location for the fix.


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