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- From: pinard@icule.UUCP (Francois Pinard)
- Subject: GNU tar 1.11 installation report
- Message-ID: <9209101438.AA07274@icule.UUCP>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:38:13 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 46
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- This is an installation report for GNU tar 1.11, using GNU C 1.40
- under COFF encapsulation, on a 386/ix 2.0.2 system (waiting for Hurd
- to be ready :-). The installation went fairly well, save for the
- following minor points or comments.
-
- * "DEF_AR_FILE=/dev/rfd1 sh configure" did not work as expected. The
- configure script should use the environment variable DEF_AR_FILE if
- it exists without overriding it.
-
- * Similarily, DEFBLOCKING should be moved from the environment into
- the created Makefile through the configure process. I know I can
- still ask "make DEFBLOCKING=30" of course. It just would be nicer is
- DEFBLOCKING was configurable in from the environment, instead of
- having a fixed value of 20 from Makefile.in.
-
- * Making after configure yields, at link time:
-
- ----->
- port.c:66 (port.o): Definition of symbol _valloc (multiply defined)
- malloc.c:718 (malloc.o): Definition of symbol _valloc (multiply defined)
- -----<
-
- First, configure tests for the presence of valloc and triggers the
- compilation of valloc inside port.o. Then, configure further decides
- to include malloc.o, which provides valloc.
-
- * Trying tar by a mere "./tar" yields:
-
- ----->
- ./tar: you must specify exactly one of the r, c, t, x, or d options
-
- For more information, type ``./tar +help''.
- -----<
-
- The +help reference should be changed to --help.
-
- * Trying "./tar --help" gives a list of option in which the comments
- are poorly aligned. It should be done better and more consistently.
-
- * Since Info files were not provided, they should not be installed.
-
- --
- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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