From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:40:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: adding a special tar for macos
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.136^2~23
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?p=feisty_meow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ddda6bbdd50689d91bc1b1672bf8a0a7092b7ab

adding a special tar for macos

the tar shipped with macos doesn't handle very long paths at all.  this
will use the brew installed 'gtar' version of gnu tar if it's available.
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diff --git a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
index 91ee6d75..7b2b7ecd 100644
--- a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
+++ b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ for (local($i) = 0; $i < scalar(@junk_file_list); $i++) {
 
 # generic versions work on sane OSes.
 $find_tool = which('find');
-$tar_tool = which('tar');
+# for mac, try to match gnu tar first.
+$tar_tool = which('gtar');
+if ( ! -f "$tar_tool" ) {
+  # fall back to regular tar.
+  $tar_tool = which('tar');
+}
 #print "find tool: $find_tool\n";
 #print "tar tool: $tar_tool\n";