Dennis Clarke dclarke@blastwave.org wrote:
I don't think there is any such general consensus. Are you reading something that favors Solaris/*bsd over GNU based systems?
Schily tools (and in special star) implement support for Linux specific extensions. This is what you do not get from gtar at all. So why do Linux distros prefer gtar even though there is no Linux support?
Is there any correlation between this and the warning message I see during a bootstrap like so :
Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include contains broken include files *** Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include is not used this reason *** Warning: This may result in the inability to use recent Linux kernel interfaces
Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all *** Warning: *** This makes it impossible to support Linux file flags *** You may try to compile using 'make COPTX=-DTRY_EXT2_FS'
This is indeed one of the Linux specific issues. The Linux kernel guys create defective include files. In other words:
The linux kernel include files that are needed in order to access certain features (in this case the ext* extended file flags) cause a C compiler error in case they are used from a userland program.
Jörg