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This is an installation report for GNU tar 1.11, using GNU C 1.40
under COFF encapsulation, on a 386/ix 2.0.2 system (waiting for Hurd
to be ready :-).  The installation went fairly well, save for the
following minor points or comments.

* "DEF_AR_FILE=/dev/rfd1 sh configure" did not work as expected.  The
configure script should use the environment variable DEF_AR_FILE if
it exists without overriding it.

* Similarily, DEFBLOCKING should be moved from the environment into
the created Makefile through the configure process.  I know I can
still ask "make DEFBLOCKING=30" of course.  It just would be nicer is
DEFBLOCKING was configurable in from the environment, instead of
having a fixed value of 20 from Makefile.in.

* Making after configure yields, at link time:

----->
port.c:66 (port.o): Definition of symbol _valloc (multiply defined)
malloc.c:718 (malloc.o): Definition of symbol _valloc (multiply defined)
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First, configure tests for the presence of valloc and triggers the
compilation of valloc inside port.o.  Then, configure further decides
to include malloc.o, which provides valloc.

* Trying tar by a mere "./tar" yields:

----->
./tar: you must specify exactly one of the r, c, t, x, or d options

For more information, type ``./tar +help''.
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The +help reference should be changed to --help.

* Trying "./tar --help" gives a list of option in which the comments
are poorly aligned.  It should be done better and more consistently.

* Since Info files were not provided, they should not be installed.

-- 
Franc,ois Pinard        ``Vivement GNU!''        pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
(514) 588-4656                                    ...!uunet!iros1!pinard
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