linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] kheaders: make it possible to override TAR

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNASYnfW8hyTYY1vySeUgg2tCJc17Rkz4C=sVCNhpiNO2GA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:43:37 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Michał Górny <mgorny@...too.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Sam James <sam@...too.org>, 
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kheaders: make it possible to override TAR

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@...too.org> wrote:
>
> Commit 86cdd2fdc4e39c388d39c7ba2396d1a9dfd66226 ("kheaders: make headers
> archive reproducible") introduced a number of options specific to GNU
> tar to the `tar` invocation in `gen_kheaders.sh` script.  This causes
> the script to fail to work on systems where `tar` is not GNU tar.  This
> can occur e.g. on recent Gentoo Linux installations that support using
> bsdtar from libarchive instead.
>
> Add a `TAR` make variable to make it possible to override the tar
> executable used, e.g. by specifying:
>
>   make TAR=gtar
>
> Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/884061
> Reported-by: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
> Tested-by: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
> Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@...too.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
> ---


Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada