Re: [PATCH] kheaders: prefer gtar over tar for better compatibility

[Sam James]

> On 25 Dec 2022, at 16:33, Michał Górny <mgorny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 01:45 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Instead of inserting a workaround like this,
>> another way is to allow users to override a variable
>> from the command line.
>> 
>> 
>> See the top Makefile, for example,
>> 
>> 
>> AWK             = awk
>> 
>> 
>> Then, users can do "make AWK=gawk"
> 
> I'm sorry but are you requesting that I remove the check and use $TAR
> instead, or allow overriding with TAR, and fall back to gtar or tar
> respectively?  If the former, should the script unconditionally assume
> that TAR will be always set in the environment, or include fallback to
> tar for when the script is run directly?


Masahiro, what do you reckon? Thanks.

Best,
sam

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