Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> ... I got some copies of tar.exe lying
> around, one from a git installation and a second one from Msys, but
> both don't work even if $ENV{TAR} points at them :/
What goes wrong exactly?
The test I proposed ("tar cf foo.tar foo") doesn't seem like it
will catch the actual problem, which IIUC is that these tars
don't like a drive letter in the file name(s). Can we arrange
to strip that in what's passed to $TAR ? If not, it seems like
we have to test for exactly that point (ie Windows-only test).
regards, tom lane
