[tex-live] New info on omega/Mac OS X problem. Baffles me completely.

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:29:38PM +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> 
> Now, I am completely baffled. Because what else does a TeX Live install 
> do except run /usr/bin/install and a strip? When I look at the result of 
> the TeX Live install and the install-by-hand I notice that the latter 
> produces an omega file that is 4 bytes shorter. How is this possible?
> 
> So, to solve this riddle, I need to know what web2c install does that 
> might influence the outcome of an install.

it doesnt do a "strip", for one thing. 

what the TeXlive install does is get a list of files
and do something like

 tar cf - `cat $FILELIST` | (cd $newdir; tar xf - )

ie it tars and then untars the files. so the only thing I can
guess at is a strange behaviour of tar. can you try that by
hand and see if the size changes?

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