Re: EXTRACT_USING improvements: a concrete proposal

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 09:28:20AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> > No, I meant: if either pick GNU tar or BSD tar as default, whichever the
> > platform is known to have. If it is not known to have one of the two,
> > explicitly use the latter.
> 
> So:
> 
>   for every platform/Foo.mk, it would be nice if someone set
>   EXTRACT_USING to one of
> 
>     "gtar" (because the platform is guaranteed to have adequately recent
>     GNU tar, and tools/tools.Foo.mk points to it), or
> 
>     "bsdtar" (if the above is not true)

We can do that for the default as long as it is set after
tools/tools.foo.mk is processed.

Joerg