Warren Young writes: > On 3/2/2012 8:16 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Friday 02 March 2012 20:08:54 James K. Lowden wrote: >>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:48:07 -0700 Warren Young wrote: >>>> I still use systems[*] that don't have tar -J, >>> [...] > > I disagree with James' solution to add xz to libgzip. However, I do > wonder why GNU tar can't be smart enough to figure out what you meant > when untarring with -z? I get why we need -j and -J for creating > archives, but when unpacking them, what's wrong with using magic > numbers to detect the compression format? (I know, off topic. No > need to reply, just venting.) At least version 1.26 implements -a, which determines the compressor from the file suffix. -- Alberto _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
