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If you installed Xcode Tools/Developer Tools, then you have a copy of gnutar. Mac OS X, like other BSD systems, include their own version of userland tools in t
by eb 19y ago
If you installed Xcode Tools/Developer Tools, then you have a copy of gnutar. Mac OS X, like other BSD systems, include their own version of userland tools in the base system. If you want the GNU version of specific tools, you have to install it separately. That's why gnutar is in MacPorts and that's why, if you extract the Developer Tools package, you'll find gnutar. It's not there by default.
I find your claim that somehow your factory install is incomplete very unlikely. Your factory-new laptop is missing these specific files yet everything else operates normally? No.
- ericb 19y agoForget gnutar, let's talk about tar which was also missing. Can you show me that tar should be missing from a new os x install and is installed only with xcode tools? The problem is, if you could, that still wouldn't explain things, but I can tell you're dying to be right. Unlikely stuff happens, just less often. I appreciate that you were trying to be helpful and to you I'm just "random internet guy" but I'm being honest, I already fixed the problem, and it was as I am stating. Telling someone staring at a blue moon that "that's unlikely" is just going to piss them off. You've squandered the goodwill and karma your original helpful comment in the other thread merited. This conversation has nothing to do with xcode anymore, but a lot to do with tool. Can we stop the "it works on my machine" BS now and move on?