[GRASS5] Again Solaris/tar/Makefile problem

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Federico

(cc grass5)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:55:29AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Justin Hickey wrote:
> 
> > > >       one of the problems on Solaris tar is that options MUST go 
> > > > first (and i think it depends on getopt in the libraries which
> > > > behaves strangely). I installed Grass on a solaris, and solved the
> > > > tar problem that way (just moved options at the beginning).
> > > 
> > > Huh? The options are at the beginning:
> > > 
> > >         ${SHELL} -c "cd ${GISBASE} ; tar cBf - bin/ | (cd ${INST_DIR}  ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ; true"

is this order of tar parameters working for you? Just to confirm!

> > > We're not using the newer "dash" form (switches preceded with dashes,
> > > with arguments immediately following the corresponding switch).
> > 
> > Has this been solved yet? I just don't want this to be ignored again.
> 
> Nothing has changed yet. I think that the relevant issue is a few
> messages back:
> 
> > Is it not safe to simply omit the trailing slash?
> 
> Unless someone actually says "no, FooOS complains if you omit the
> trailing slash", I suggest that we remove it.

Usually we find out quickly if we change the cvs (brute force method).
O.k., not very elegant, but we need to find out now.

Regards

 Markus

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