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From: mek@michael.udev.cdc.com (Mark Kennedy)
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Subject: Re: gnu tar: any one get it compiled?
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Date: 21 May 91 16:46:06 GMT
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In article <1991May17.144709.15520@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>, peter@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
|> I'm having a lot of trouble getting gnu tar to build on our mips box.
|> Any one ever try this with success? I have similar problems with dte,
|> the Wordstar clone from down under. If anyone has worked with either
|> of these packages, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Please mail me
|> rather than post as I am going on vacation next week (Florida!) and
|> usenet messages may be expired before I get back. Thanks.

I'll post this too for those with interest...

Yes, no problem, I compiled gnu tar on our CD4360 running EP/IX 1.3.2
without incident.  Comment out the Berkeley defs in the Makefile and
use the USG macros instead.   I think I changed the LIBS macro to
use -lPW, but not -lndir (I think).  I'll mail the binary to anyone
who requests it.  The big reason I wanted gnu tar (for those who don't
know of it) is it gives you the ability to have your files to be
tarred-up on your local machine, but write the tar tape on a remote
machine.

	-Mark
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