Re: [gpsd-dev] [gpsd-users] Warnings from 32 bit FreeBSD

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > tar: unknown option -- transform
> > > usage: tar [-]{crtux}[-befhjklmopqvwzHJOPSXZ014578] [archive]
> > > [blocksize] [-C directory] [-T file] [-s replstr] [file ...]
> > > scons: *** [dist] Error 1
> > > scons: building terminated because of errors.
> >
> > scons knows about gtar.  I just pushed a fix that should work.
>
> So I have to put TAR=gtar in the environment, which isn't a big deal
> (but is a regression from auto* :-).  That made gpsd-3.19-dev.tar.gz.

When I ran afoul of this, I didn't see anything in SConstruct that would 
honor a TAR environment variable.  I patched that in for testing, but it 
wasn't useful on MacOS because the MacPorts gnutar segfaults when used in 
that way.

Avoiding the need for the GNU-specific --transform would be nice, but not 
trivial.

Fred Wright