[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] build: depend on host zip tool

[Paul Oranje]

> Op 3 dec. 2018, om 23:20 heeft Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists at pyret.net> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> On 2018-12-03 23:05, Paul Oranje wrote:
>>> Op 3 dec. 2018, om 10:57 heeft Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists at pyret.net> het volgende geschreven:
>>> Hi,
>>> Perhaps its worth considering adding bsdtar / libarchive (https://www.libarchive.org/) instead which handles various formats including zip (via zlib) and is still active? Another possible benefit would be that you would consolidate a few more tools into one.
>> On macOSX which has BSD tar the man pages states that it can extract
>> ZIP files, but it not that it can *create* ZIP files.
> 
> Perhaps a very old version?
> 
> "tar -a -cf archive.zip source.c source.h"
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1
> 
> Also listed as supported here:
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveFormats
> 
> Works fine on FreeBSD 11.2 (version string below)
> 
> bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.3 bz2lib/1.0.6
Indeed, macOS 10.14.1 (Mojave) carries an old version.
$ tar --version
bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3

> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Daniel
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