Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "bmj2001" To: "Mark Sheppard" , Subject: RE: binutils-2.11.2.tar.bz2 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:38:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010621162011.B10044@ddf.net> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal I already got it dearchived. I've been trying to build it since yesterday or the day before. It fails its make check. -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mark Sheppard Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:20 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: binutils-2.11.2.tar.bz2 On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:02:59PM +0200, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, bmj2001 wrote: > > > tar --use=bzip2 -xf > > How about use gzip as more known and accetable standard? Bzip2 is getting more popular as it has better compression than gzip. It is a slower algorithm, but the speed of computers is increasing so that's getting to be less of a problem. Tar already supports bzip2 with the -j option (newish GNU tars that is): tar -jxf whatever.tar.bz2 Mark. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple