Dennis Clarke <dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I don't think there is any such general consensus. Are you reading
> >> something that favors Solaris/*bsd over GNU based systems?
> >
> > Schily tools (and in special star) implement support for Linux specific
> > extensions. This is what you do not get from gtar at all. So why do Linux
> > distros prefer gtar even though there is no Linux support?
>
> Is there any correlation between this and the warning message I see during a
> bootstrap like so :
>
> Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include contains broken include files ***
> Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include is not used this reason ***
> Warning: This may result in the inability to use recent Linux kernel
> interfaces
>
> Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all ***
> Warning: *** This makes it impossible to support Linux file flags ***
> You may try to compile using 'make COPTX=-DTRY_EXT2_FS'
This is indeed one of the Linux specific issues. The Linux kernel guys create
defective include files. In other words:
The linux kernel include files that are needed in order to access certain
features (in this case the ext* extended file flags) cause a C compiler error
in case they are used from a userland program.
Jörg
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