RE: [Bug-tar] Problem w/ --compare in 1.14 & 1.15.1 on FC3

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Glenn Talbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> Do you know why I do not see this problem with my tar 1.13.25 on RH-8 and
> you do see the problem in 1.13.25?

No, I do not (yet). 
 
> Why does tar 1.15.1 fail "make check"?
>   2: decompressing from stdin                  FAILED (pipe.at:50)

Please send me the file tar-1.15.1/tests/testsuite.log, so that I
could investigate it.

> Why does Fedora Core 3 put tar in /bin but "make install" puts it in
> /usr/local/bin?

This is determined by --prefix and --bindir options to configure. To
install tar binary into /bin and the rest of files under /usr (as
most GNU/Linux installations do), configure tar as follows:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin

You may also wish to read files INSTALL and README to familiarize
yourself with the configure options.

Regards,
Sergey