Guten Morgen. ^_^ Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: |Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: |>|A better solution may be to call: |>| |>| star -c -f some-file -find .... |>| |>|This is even faster than using find | xargs. |> |> I started using star instead of what was on (then) MacOS .. |> tarball it spit out error messages on format incompatibilities for |> tarballs of mine, a problem area i hadn't been sensitized for. .. |POSIX compliant but really are not? Note that it does not warn with gtar |archives, as gtar does not mark them as POSIX archives. .. |> Same is true for smake, by the way, it just failed in the other |> window: it is really time to replace the main work machine that |> died almost a year ago now. | |Even though smake is much older than gmake, I planned to let it die \ |in 1997 but
No, please don't. It is fast and if you provide an .y inference rule it rocks it. |then I discovered that gmake does not work on many platforms that are \ |listed as |"working". Gmake does not work at all with non-trivial makefiles on \ |OS/2 and VMS |and it has massive problems on Cygwin because of the incorrect white space |handling. I was forced to continue to support smake in order to support |cdrtools on all target platforms. | |Smake is much closer to POSIX than gmake, but it uses a common namespace \ |for |macros and rules and it does not support looking into timestamps in \ |libraries. |If you have a project that was written for "make" and not for "gmake", \ |I am |willing to change smake. My problem was that i had to diversify my makefile because we now need -lrt on Solaris (for nanosleep(2)), also for a privilege-separated mini support-program, and that didn't work out (it would gain GSSAPI libraries too, then, for example). The result used $(<) in a non-inference rule, which smake didn't like. (Maybe gmake(1) would have complained with .POSIX, but which i don't use because gmake v3.81 bails for it.) Now fixed. |> Where was i? Ah. Well i could use list= of star, but that is |> non-portable (the STARvsGNUTAR has some false claims btw.). | |If you are talking about CLI compatibility, you are right with "list=", |but please note that this option has been added in 1984 already. At \ |that time, |there was no -I option in UNIX tar. This was added on UNIX in late 1989. | |If you know of statements in STARvsGNUTAR that are no longer true (the \ |file was |last changed in 2007), please send a list of items that need to be \ |corrected. Ooooooh. Puuuuuh. I feel it, i feel it ... there is a burnout syndrome lingering on the horizon. ._. Ciao. --steffen
