dnl Check for a tar program that speaks ustar format dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program. AC_DEFUN([GNUPG_CHECK_USTAR], [ AC_ARG_WITH(tar, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-tar=PATH],[look for a tar program in PATH]), [_do_tar=$withval]) if test x$_do_tar != xno ; then if test x$_do_tar = x ; then AC_PATH_PROG(TAR,"tar") _mytar=$ac_cv_path_TAR fi # Check if our tar is ustar format. If so, it's good. TODO: Add some # code to check various options, etc, to try and create ustar # format. if test x$_mytar != x ; then AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $_mytar speaks USTAR]) echo hithere > conftest.txt $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | (dd skip=257 bs=1 count=5 2>/dev/null || cat) | grep ustar > /dev/null _tar_bad=$? rm conftest.txt if test x$_tar_bad = x0 ; then AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) else AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) fi fi fi AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_USTAR, test x$_tar_bad = x0) ])dnl