Re: How to use a wrapper "amgtar"



Takashi Kurakata wrote:

Hi, all.

I try to set of "amgtar" reffering to the
URL:http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html .

First I try to configure Amanda(amanda:2.6.0b2) on the client to use
the gnutar-wrapper instead of the real GNU-tar:
./configure ... --with-gnutar=/bin/amgtar ...

But I get this on make:
WARNINGS:
  /bin/amgtar is not GNU tar, so it will not be used.

Would you please answer to my questions follow whether if they are
possible or not?

1) What did I do wrong?
2) Does this error occure on older amanda 2.5.2p2?

Your prompt reply would be greatly appreciated.

When I was developing my wrapper, I went through a number of trials. Ifound that when I did the ./configure, I needed to have the wrapper thatconfigure thought should be the actual utility in fact be the actualutility. So I would symlink the (in your case) /bin/amgtar to the actualgnutar, do the ./configure, make, make install, and then replace thesymlink with the wrapper. While I was learning and getting the configureoptions right, I had to repeat that process each time I repeated theconfigure.

I'm assuming that configure does some tests that the wrapper isn't ableto fake correctly, so configure decides it's not the real thing.

So, give it the real thing, and then replace it with the wrapper afteryou have everything built and installed.



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