leostera / leostera/rules_reason
Building on osx: Usage of tar --transform flag
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- Python
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Description
When trying to build on a mac, it failed to due the missing --transform flag on the bsd tar the ships with mac. I ended up installing gtar and linking it in /usr/local. Perhaps these genrules can be rewritten to either not depend on that feature, or use a packaged version of tar?
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Research direction
Locate the genrules that invoke tar and reproduce the build on macOS with the system BSD tar, checking the failure around the unsupported --transform flag. Compare avoiding that feature with using a packaged tar; done means the project builds on macOS without manually installing and linking GNU tar.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, shell
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100