[tlbuild] Testing net install

[Norbert Preining]

HI Edd,

again me ...

On Mo, 04 Aug 2008, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 04 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > % ./install-tl 
> > tar --version failed (status 256): No such file or directory
> > Output is:tar: unknown option -- -
> > usage: tar {crtux}[014578befHhjLmOoPpqsvwXZz]
> >            [blocking-factor | archive | replstr] [-C directory] [-I file]
> >            [file ...]
> >        tar {-crtux} [-014578eHhjLmOoPpqvwXZz] [-b blocking-factor]
> >            [-C directory] [-f archive] [-I file] [-s replstr] [file ...]
> > Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
> > Cannot continue with installation.
> > Please report to texlive at tug.org.
> > ---8<---

OpenBSD tar is a bummer, it does NOT support any type of help/version
whatsoever. At least that is what I got from the man page. Is there no
way to actually invoke tar on openbsd to see whether it can be executed
and then echos some information and exits with 0???

Anyway, I have added code that tar checking is disabled on i386-openbsd.

Best wishes

Norbert

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