Hi Charlie, On Monday, September 25, 2017 5:09:12 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote: > As for building the library, I would compile the tar source against a possible > paxutils library and gnulib (if it has a shared library). I would also have to > install some of the tar headers. > > Please let me know what you think.
I don't claim it could not work as you draw it. But the GNU tar binary IMO should *use* the library which would be provided by GNU tar/GNU paxutils. IOW, please build the binary against the new library (whereever it will live) and not the other way around (library against tar's sources). Pavel
