Validate broken on OS X

[Simon Marlow]

On 20/11/2009 18:51, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:46:08PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> Do we really have to rely on a specific version of tar?  Dependencies
>>> like that always come back to bite you.
>>
>> It sounds like the --force-local option is required iff tar is GNU tar.
>>   So we should have a configure test for that.
>
> Or, as I already wrote, use a pipe with bzip2 -cd ... | tar xf -

Done.

Simon