Nov. 8, 2012
2:42 p.m.
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?
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.