On 12/18/11 15:55, Steven Penny wrote: > why is MinGW found many times in the "configure" file?
GNU Tar uses some library code that can run on MinGW, and some of its configuration creeps into 'configure', but that doesn't mean that GNU Tar itself runs on MinGW. It'd be a lot of work to port GNU Tar to MinGW, I expect, and this is so low priority that it'll probably never get done. See "Portability between System Types" <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/System-Portability.html>.
