configure's tar ustar test can fail on Solaris

[Mark Davies]

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 03:35, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sun,  9 Jul 2006 00:12, Mark Davies said:
> > -        $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | grep -q ustar
> > +        $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | strings | grep -q ustar
>
> I am not sure whether strings is available on all platforms. What
> about
>
>   $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | ( strings || cat ) | grep -q ustar


If that works then fine, but I will note that strings has been on every unix 
system I've ever used (going back to BSD4.2) and it is part of POSIX and the 
Single Unix Specification.

cheers
mark