configure's tar ustar test can fail on Solaris
Mark Davies
mark at mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Sun Jul 9 00:12:41 CEST 2006
The grep on Solaris has difficulty with binary files so may not detect
the "ustar" in the output of tar during the configure test for tar
speaking USTAR. The below patch fixes by passing the output through
strings first.
--- m4/tar-ustar.m4.orig Sun Jul 9 10:07:40 2006
+++ m4/tar-ustar.m4 Sun Jul 9 10:07:57 2006
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
if test x$_mytar != x ; then
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $_mytar speaks USTAR])
echo hithere > conftest.txt
- $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | grep -q ustar
+ $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | strings | grep -q ustar
_tar_bad=$?
rm conftest.txt
cheers
mark
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