Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Despite that tar is available everywhere, it's not required by POSIX. > And, we're allow users to specify which tar they want to use in Makefile s/we're/we/; > knobs, and we prefer GNU tar in autotools script. The last part I didn't know about---it is sad if autotools require use of gtar (but since use of autoconf and autotools is not required to build Git, I do not deeply care ;-)). > In our testsuite, 7 out of 9 tar-required-tests use "$TAR", the other > two use "tar". > > Let's change the remaining two tests to "$TAR". Nice.
