Re: Question about 'patching' source code.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz-mXXj517/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:36:38 +1100
> From: David Wall <[email protected]>
> 
> But - I need Mingw/msys to do the building and the source code comes in
> Tar.gz format.
> 
> I had a play this arvo and wrote a small batch file that used 7z to
> get the tar out of the .tar.gz - then the same 7z to get the files I
> needed to edit out of the .tar.

There are MinGW ports of the bsdtar program that can unpack a .tar.gz
archive directly, so there should be no need for tricks with 7z.

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