Sam James writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > > >> On 17 Jan 2023, at 19:01, Sam James wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 25 Dec 2022, at 16:33, Michał Górny wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 01:45 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >>>> Instead of inserting a workaround like this, >>>> another way is to allow users to override a variable >>>> from the command line. >>>> >>>> >>>> See the top Makefile, for example, >>>> >>>> >>>> AWK = awk >>>> >>>> >>>> Then, users can do "make AWK=gawk" >>> >>> I'm sorry but are you requesting that I remove the check and use $TAR >>> instead, or allow overriding with TAR, and fall back to gtar or tar >>> respectively? If the former, should the script unconditionally assume >>> that TAR will be always set in the environment, or include fallback to >>> tar for when the script is run directly? >> >> >> Masahiro, what do you reckon? Thanks. >> > > Ping. ping^2. We'd really love to get this in to fix a bug for our users in Gentoo. > >> Best, >> sam > > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]]