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

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Message-ID: <1a063f9ee31b007254f725d5c3dedf81c515de78.camel@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:33:22 +0200
From: Michał Górny <mgorny@...too.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.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, 2025-07-29 at 22:43 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot.  I'll try to find some time in the future to look into
other uses of tar, for consistency.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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