Each one of these patches is ideally a self-contained, independent improvement. The ChangeLog entry of each patch should give enough details about the "how and why" of the changes the patch introduces.
The series has been partly motivated by automake bug#9822 (which I hope I'll be able to analyze better soonish enough). I'll push this series to a new branch based off of maint in 48 hours if there is no objection; this series will be merged back into maint once 1.11.2 has been released. Regards, Stefano -*-*- Stefano Lattarini (4): missing: miscellaneous fixlets missing: if GNU tar exists but fails when called, give up missing: inform the user if GNU tar is called missing: don't try to re-run tar with a munged command line ChangeLog | 43 +++++++++++++ lib/missing | 43 ++++--------- tests/Makefile.am | 1 + tests/Makefile.in | 1 + tests/missing-tar.test | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/missing-tar.test -- 1.7.2.3
