David Cantrell 🏏3d ago

Grargh! #Solaris #tar hates #GNU extensions. And #cpanm can't be configured to specifically use #gtar instead of whatever tar it finds first in the path.

Therefore ...

`sudo ln -sf $(which gtar) $(which tar)`

No, I'm not kidding.

https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB/commit/4b8b4f72ed474e17eacca7eb0a2c275d37e662b4

#perl #ComputerAbuse

Replace `tar` with `gtar`, because Solaris `tar` shits its pants when… · DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB@4b8b4f7

… it sees some GNU extensions in tarballs that `cpanm` downloads from the CPAN.

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Show threadBill Ricker2d ago
@DrHyde which gnu gtar extensions has Solaris/BSD not adopted and failing hard on?
Show threadDavid Cantrell 🏏
@BRicker this was provoked by this test failure: https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB/actions/runs/22548087875/job/65314115461
Merge pull request #37 from DrHyde/dependabot/github_actions/actions/… · DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB@1c3e590

Palm::TreoPhoneCallDB. Contribute to DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadBill Ricker2d ago
@DrHyde wow, I'd lost track of the diverging of OpenSolaris !
Show threadDavid Cantrell 🏏1d ago
@BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.
Show threadBill Ricker23h ago
@DrHyde 👍