test: (gnu) tar(1) portability
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Sat Jan 11 08:04:49 PST 2014
Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
>
> 2) Change calls to 'tar' to format ${GNU_TAR:-tar} so testers can set
> environment variable GNU_TAR to the name/path of gnu tar when running
> tests (like GNU_TAR=/usr/local/bin/gtar make test or GNU_TAR=gtar ...)
I don't really see any downside to this option; there's only a few calls
to tar to replace. Of course we could bikeshed about whether to write
TAR=${GNU_TAR:-tar}
...
${TAR} --frub --blah
instead of testing GNU_TAR everywhere.
But, shrug...
d
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