Re: test: (gnu) tar(1) portability

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+>\r
+> 2) Change calls to 'tar' to format ${GNU_TAR:-tar} so testers can set \r
+>    environment variable GNU_TAR to the name/path of gnu tar when running\r
+>    tests (like GNU_TAR=/usr/local/bin/gtar make test or GNU_TAR=gtar ...)\r
+\r
+I don't really see any downside to this option; there's only a few calls\r
+to tar to replace.  Of course we could bikeshed about whether to write \r
+\r
+TAR=${GNU_TAR:-tar}\r
+...\r
+\r
+${TAR} --frub --blah \r
+\r
+instead of testing GNU_TAR everywhere.\r
+\r
+But, shrug...\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r