Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:49:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Create DOS 32 bits exe on solaris/unix?
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> mkdir -p ${build_dir}
> tar -xzvf ${bnu_src}

These commands aren't portable to all Unix platforms.  Some older 
versions of Unix don't know about `mkdir -p', and the `z' modifier is 
only supported by GNU `tar'.  Of course, on Linux everything but the 
kernel is from GNU, but at least a comment in the shell script should 
mention potential portability problems.  A better way would be to replace 
`mkdir -p' by a shell loop that does the same (`mkinstalldirs' script in 
every GNU source distribution does that) and use "gzip -d -c | tar xvf -" 
pipe to unzip .tar.gz files.