On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 08:48:48AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:34:29 +0100 > > From: Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> > > > > Hello, > > > > In the CI, solaris 11 fails with > > > > cd built_input && \ > > tar -xm -f > > "/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.1.91-20241116/build/../tp/tests/input/non_ascii.tar" > > tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory > > > > I have read the solaris man page for tar, and it is not so clear to what > > extent the format with a - should work. > > > > Maybe it would be better for portability to use the old style bundeled > > format, like > > > > tar xmf .... > > Yes, I think it will be more portable that way. >
Thanks, I didn't really know what to look at for information on portable use of tar. I checked the FreeBSD man page for "tar" and that was about it. The POSIX tar specification is very rudimentary and only uses the "bundled" format and also marks it as LEGACY. We use tar cf and tar xf in texi2dvi. There were other options I wanted to use like --directory or --transform which were GNU extensions. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?tar(1) https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html
