a pretty awful piece of software. It seems to recurse into a temp subdirectory under the current one and to prepend ../ to the front of all path names, even absolute ones. This makes it a bit short of helpful when you're trying to extract additional archives in arbitrary places on top of the primary (e.g. git, which for some reason has a separate archive for its man pages and no bloody Makefile to install them). My immediate reaction is that it needs to be taught absolute path names, but I really don't understand the full range of expected use cases. That probably means reading through make-rules/*.mk and then "find components -name Makefile | xargs grep UNPACK", but I was hoping someone might be able to hit me with a clue stick before I go through that exercise. Somehow I expect I'll be consoling myself by calling tar or gtar directory out of what should be a very simple rule.<br>
<br></grumbling><br>