On 8 November 2012 11:42, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com> wrote:
Is this a known issue, or my "tar" install is wrong?
yes it is known.. i had to install 7z support for tar. this is because MacOS is number of years behind the most recent release of tar, which supports 7z compressing by default :)
so that has to be installed on OSX or not? If we should update the HOWTOBUILD accordingly?
what i did is installed new tar from ports. i don't know why cairo people decided that switching to 7z compression for their sources is right time. (if you look at releases, they did this recently)
And with your config, i am not sure that default MacOS installation having unxz utility installed. If yes, then , of course it makes sense to change config to what is proposed by you. And if not, then it is better to leave a note in class & methods comments to indicate that people should install more recent tar utility.
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.