[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/3] tools: fix tar xv test on msys

Steve Lhomme robux4 at videolabs.io
Tue Oct 18 13:03:18 CEST 2016


tar /dev/null doesn't work if not specified as a file
---
 extras/tools/bootstrap | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/extras/tools/bootstrap b/extras/tools/bootstrap
index e6d74ee..7a47b8b 100755
--- a/extras/tools/bootstrap
+++ b/extras/tools/bootstrap
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 check_tar() {
-if ! tar PcJ /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
+if ! tar PcJ /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 && ! tar PcJf /dev/null /dev/null 2>&1
 then
     echo "tar doesn't support xz (J option)"
     NEEDED="$NEEDED .tar .xz"
-- 
2.8.2



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