On Jun 2, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > On 6/1/13 6:07 PM, James Peach wrote: >> On Jun 1, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> I remember we used to use this tar-ustar option, and it breaks on some >>> platforms. Maybe that's no longer an issue on platforms we care about? See >>> a7e39d4fa7464a2b91b47a7b77ac570940fd2cf4. >> The commit message says it's an autoconf issue? Since Jenkins is happy, I'm >> happy ;) > > But jenkins doesn't try to "make dist"... I don't remember if it was an issue > with running autoconf, or running "make dist"... But, as long as everyone is > happy, leave it as is.
I thought you meant that old autoconf did not support the tar-ustar option? In that case, it should puke at autoreconf time. J