Validate broken on OS X

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:58:17PM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
> cd a/b/c/ && /usr/bin/tar --force-local -jxf ../../../../bindistprep/ghc-6.13.20091119-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
> tar: Option --force-local is not supported
> Usage:
>   List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
>   Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
>   Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
>   Help:    tar --help
> make: *** [all] Error 1

What version of OS X is this?

It looks like your /usr/bin/tar isn't GNU tar, but mine is, and I don't
remember doing anything special - unless installing XCode would have
replaced it?

I'm not sure what the best thing to do here is. Perhaps validate should
pass configure a --validating flag, and configure should fail if tar
isn't GNU tar and that flag has been passed?


Thanks
Ian