From 0967be82b882e34adc6d76cf842a0b3e9e5b4261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dshaw <dshaw@8a63c251-dffc-0310-8ec6-d64dca2275b1>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:41:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * tar-ustar.m4: Use dd instead of strings as it's more likely
 to be around.  Suggested by Nelson H. F. Beebe.

git-svn-id: svn://cvs.gnupg.org/gnupg/trunk@4192 8a63c251-dffc-0310-8ec6-d64dca2275b1
---
 m4/ChangeLog    | 5 +++++
 m4/tar-ustar.m4 | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/m4/ChangeLog b/m4/ChangeLog
index a3d9b9cb..67c11063 100644
--- a/m4/ChangeLog
+++ b/m4/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-12  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* tar-ustar.m4: Use dd instead of strings as it's more likely to
+	be around.  Suggested by Nelson H. F. Beebe.
+
 2006-07-11  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
 
 	* tar-ustar.m4: Not all greps know the -q (quiet) flag, so
diff --git a/m4/tar-ustar.m4 b/m4/tar-ustar.m4
index 5ef2e16e..4ae9e63a 100644
--- a/m4/tar-ustar.m4
+++ b/m4/tar-ustar.m4
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([GNUPG_CHECK_USTAR],
      if test x$_mytar != x ; then
         AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $_mytar speaks USTAR])
         echo hithere > conftest.txt
-        $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | strings | grep ustar > /dev/null
+        $_mytar -cf - conftest.txt | (dd skip=257 bs=1 count=5 2>/dev/null || cat) | grep ustar > /dev/null
         _tar_bad=$?
         rm conftest.txt
 
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