From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:04:49 +0000 (+2000)
Subject: Re: test: (gnu) tar(1) portability
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Re: test: (gnu) tar(1) portability
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+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: test: (gnu) tar(1) portability
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
+>
+> 2) Change calls to 'tar' to format ${GNU_TAR:-tar} so testers can set 
+>    environment variable GNU_TAR to the name/path of gnu tar when running
+>    tests (like GNU_TAR=/usr/local/bin/gtar make test or GNU_TAR=gtar ...)
+
+I don't really see any downside to this option; there's only a few calls
+to tar to replace.  Of course we could bikeshed about whether to write 
+
+TAR=${GNU_TAR:-tar}
+...
+
+${TAR} --frub --blah 
+
+instead of testing GNU_TAR everywhere.
+
+But, shrug...
+
+d
+