Hello,
Glenn Gillis wrote:
> > http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/tar-1.18.0.1.tar.gz
> >
> > Can you try this tarball instead? Does it still fails the same way?
>
> Thanks for this, Bruno. pkg_add didn't recognize this file as a valid
> package, and the ports system just tried to install tar-1.17, even with
> your tarball in the distfiles directory.
>
> So, I tried just unzipping the tarball you sent and running "configure,"
> "make" and "make install".
Yes, the usual procedure for installing GNU packages is "./configure",
"make", "make install".
> That seemed to complete without errors,
Thanks for this info. It means gnulib has entirely fixed the problem.
> but I can't tell to *where* it installed. The only installed tar I can find
> ("whereis tar") is in /usr/bin, but when I run it ("/usr/bin/tar
> --version") it is still version 1.13.
>
> Do you know how I can determine to where the tarball you sent installed?
It is written in the package's INSTALL file:
" By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. ..."
Bruno
