Apologies for a very belated response as I've been off the net. On 2009-Oct-02 11:42:17 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >I was thinking of making some changes to sage-env, with the main aim of >improving portability and getting rid of GNUisms.
I support this. >3) Check 'tar' is GNU tar. I'm not sure this is necessary. I know Solaris tar is fairly badly broken but the BSD tar can do anything GNU tar can do - the only "issue" I've run into is that the output from '-t' and '-v' are somewhat different (which is a nuisance when trying to compare build logs between Linux and FreeBSD). >Can anyone think of any other variables that might be needed, perhaps >for OS X, FreeBSD etc? I can't think of any for FreeBSD. -- Peter Jeremy
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