In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Lars> Any point in using the f flag at all in such cases?
>Lars> => $(TAR) cho $(distdir) | $(GZIP) -c > $(distdir).tar.gz
>
>I thought some versions of tar defaulted to something like /de
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Any point in using the f flag at all in such cases?
Lars> => $(TAR) cho $(distdir) | $(GZIP) -c > $(distdir).tar.gz
I thought some versions of tar defaulted to something like /dev/rmt8
(or some other equally obscure device). It's h
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Wouldn't it be a better idea to pipe the output of (any) tar
: to gzip:
: $(TAR) chof - $(distdir) | $(GZIP) -c > $(distdir).tar.gz
Any point in using the f flag at all in such cases?
=> $(TAR) cho $(distdir) | $(GZIP) -c >
> "Merijn" == mdejonge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Merijn> I'm new to this mailing list so I don't know whether to
Merijn> following has been discussed before (At least I couldn't
Merijn> find anything on the mailing list).
It has been, but it may have been quite a while ago.
Merijn> Durin
Hi,
I'm new to this mailing list so I don't know whether to
following has been discussed before (At least I couldn't
find anything on the mailing list).
During a "make dist" the command "$(TAR) chozf" is executed.
Unfortunately, the "z" option (which causes tar to execute
gzip) is GNU tar specif
