On advice of Joerg Schilling and not knowing what 'star' was, I decided to install it for testing. Star uses a very unorthodox build and install approach so the person building it has very little control over what it does.
Unfortunately I made the mistake of installing it under /usr/local where it decided to remove the GNU tar I had installed there. Star does not support traditional tar command line syntax so it can't be used with existing scripts. Performance testing showed that it was no more efficient than the 'gtar' which comes with Solaris. It seems that 'star' does not support an 'uninstall' target so now I am forced to manually remove it from my system. It seems that the best way to deal with star is to install it into its own directory so that it does not interfere with existing software. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
