From: Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:26:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Avoid using non-standard GNU tar option --force-local
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Avoid using non-standard GNU tar option --force-local
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diff --git a/bindisttest/Makefile b/bindisttest/Makefile
index 7332bab..2780e5f 100644
--- a/bindisttest/Makefile
+++ b/bindisttest/Makefile
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ all:
 	$(RM) HelloWorld HelloWorld.o HelloWorld.hi output
 # We use the a/b/c subdirectory as configure looks for install-sh in
 # . .. ../.. and we don't want it to find the build system's install-sh.
-# --force-local makes tar not think that c:/foo refers to a remote file
-	cd a/b/c/ && $(TAR) --force-local -jxf ../../../$(BIN_DIST_TEST_TAR_BZ2)
+#
+# NB. tar has funny interpretation of filenames sometimes (thinking
+# c:/foo is a remote file), so it's safer to bzip and then pipe into
+# tar rather than using tar -xjf:
+	cd a/b/c/ && bzip2 -cd ../../../$(BIN_DIST_TEST_TAR_BZ2) | $(TAR) -xf -
 ifeq "$(Windows)" "YES"
 	mv a/b/c/$(BIN_DIST_NAME) $(BIN_DIST_INST_DIR)
 else