On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:20:38PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've been having trouble getting amanda to support gnu tar
> on Solaris boxes.
> 
> What I discovered was that even though I explicitly set the
> path to gnu tar  at configure time;
> ./configure <other options> --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar
> 
> and even though amanda appeared to configure for gnu tar 
> (judging from the config log file and the debugging output where it
> actually shows the path I gave configure) it refused to recognise it,
> claiming that it wasn't a gnu tar.
> 
> Finally I seem to have figured it out;
> 
> If $PATH has another version of tar which would be found
> before the gnu tar, even though one explicitly puts it on the
> configure commandline, the #ifdef's in runtar.c don't appear
> to pick it up and hence its not compiled in; all that gets compiled
> in are the messages bitching about not having gnu tar.
> 
> Or something like that.

I'm on Solaris.  There are 3 "tar's", 2 "gtar's", and
several other "*tar's" in my path BEFORE the one in the
location I use for amanda.  A couple after too, my PATH
is a ridiculous 74 "bin's" long.

It picks up my --with-guntar just fine.


> By setting my $PATH at configure time so that /usr/local/bin
> was at the front, I got a build on Sloarsis which works with
> gnu tar!
> 
> Bug in the configure script? Or am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
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