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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Gnu Tar for AIX 3.1
Message-ID: <20263@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 91 19:27:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.172727.23077@sarah.albany.edu>
Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
Organization: Dead Poets Society
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In <1991Jan24.172727.23077@sarah.albany.edu> rds95@leah.albany.edu (Robert Seals) writes:

>Does anyone know the incantation to get GNU tar to
>compile (correctly!) on a rs/6000? I did it once,
>but stupidly clobbered my GNU stuff when I did the
>update. And now I can't remember what I did. Oops.

Took some source hacking, at least for me.... 
there isn't a sys/tape.h, and the symbols are 
different in sys/scsi.h.... gnutar is Berkeleyish, 
and you have to do some extra ioctl()'s to get
bsd line discipline active..... you'll need #pragma alloca...
I had to rearrange some procedures to get their declarations
in order.... diffs (standard context) were 461 lines plus
an extra .h file for the #defines so I could map mt-defs to scsi defs...
again, You Want It, You Got It...

-- Glenn R. Stone
gs26@prism.gatech.edu, glenns@eas.gatech.edu