On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:24:58PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > > > What is the basis for the report that older tars don't work? > > This posting: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-02/msg01861.html > > It may certainly be the case that some patched version of tar on RHEL > works fine (one would indeed hope and expect that distributors are > adding value in precisely such ways!) but it's better to be safe than > sorry, and I didn't have the resources to verify exactly which versions > might or might not work.
I just repeated the test with the FSF 1.13 release. Again, no complaints and diff -r matches what 1.15.1 gives. I suppose I could repeat the test with the gcc 4.1 RC1 tarball, where David E. saw a problem.
