Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which
> makes it hard for a default choice.

As per WikiPedia:

"Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys 
relatively little popularity and penetration rate.

pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux 
Standard Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so 
far few Linux distributions ship and install it by default. However, 
most distributions include pax as a separately installable package."

I find pax under Solaris, FreeBSD, & Apple's OS X but not (by default 
on) Ubtuntu Linux.

Bob
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