Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!mips!wje From: wje@redwood.mips.com (William J. Earl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: gnu tar: any one get it compiled? Message-ID: <3761@spim.mips.COM> Date: 21 May 91 20:53:20 GMT References: <1991May17.144709.15520@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> <33408@shamash.cdc.com> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: wje@redwood.mips.com (William J. Earl) Distribution: na Organization: MIPS Computer Systems Inc. Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: redwood.mips.com In-reply-to: mek@michael.udev.cdc.com (Mark Kennedy) Originator: wje@redwood.mips.com In article <33408@shamash.cdc.com>, mek@michael (Mark Kennedy) writes: > 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. RISC/os (or EP/IX) tar does this for the super-user in RISC/os 4.50, and for all users in RISC/os 5.0 (coming soon...). The "N" option (see tar(1)) specifies the remote host on which the tape operations are to be performaed. -- William J. Earl wje@mips.com MIPS Computer Systems 408-524-8172 930 Arques Avenue, M/S 1-03 FAX 408-524-8401 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3650