Re: [Sbcl-devel] Make asdf-install use GNU tar on NetBSD

[Ossi H. <ohe...@ee...>]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:06:23AM -0400, Richard M Kreuter wrote:

> NetBSD's tar is not GNU tar.  Patch below. =20
>=20
> Something similar is done for FreeBSD in the ported asdf-install; I
> don't know whether SBCL's asdf-install works there at present.
>=20

NetBSD doesn't have GNU tar. So, the patch doesn't work in clean
NetBSD installations. What is the case with other supported
non-Linuxes?

However, GNU tar is found from pkgsrc which is often used to install
packages for NetBSD, but not always. There is a patch in pkgsrc's SBCL
package which does something like your patch.

It's near impossible to make non-Linuxes to take gtar in base
distribution. So the only solution is to do something to asdf-install
to work with different tar implementations.

The only problem(?) with BSD tar vs. GNU tar is the symlink from
site/package/package.asd to system/package.asd.


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