Dennis Clarke <dclarke at 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 -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily