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From: paula@atc.boeing.com (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU tar diffs
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Date: 16 Apr 91 20:59:09 GMT
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In article <50832@nigel.ee.udel.edu> leisner.wbst139@xerox.com writes:
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>GNU tar should make using gcc (just type make).
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>Never did, just a hunch.

I tried it last night with "gcc -DUSG", and there were lots of
problems.  First, sys/sysmacros doesn't exist.  (It's apparently
only needed for major() and minor(), which are trivial.)  Offhand,
I don't remember what the next stumbling block was.  I fiddled
with it for a half hour or so without even getting the first
source file to compile.  It needed more time than I had to spare.
There is a section in the Makefile with comments about Minix, but
I think it dates back to 1.2 or 1.3.

>GNU tar makes with some patches on ms/dos (at least for me...)

Yeah, it works under Minix with some patches, too.  The copy I use was
built with "bcc -3 -DMINIX" and a lot of #ifdef's.  I fixed two or
three bugs before I got it working to the point that I could rely on it
for backups.

Several people have asked, so I'm in the process of getting together
diff's and checking them out.  This will be relative to the tar-1.09
from last October, which is still current as far as I know.

Paul Allen
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