[PIO-153] Allow use of GNU tar on non-GNU systems
Closes #469
diff --git a/make-distribution.sh b/make-distribution.sh
index 7a34274..7d94a79 100755
--- a/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/make-distribution.sh
@@ -112,7 +112,12 @@
cp LICENSE.txt ${TARDIR}
cp NOTICE.txt ${TARDIR}
-tar zcvf ${TARNAME} ${TARDIR}
+# Allows override for `tar` command
+# This enables using GNU tar on systems such as macOS
+if [ -z "$TAR" ] ; then
+ TAR=tar
+fi
+$TAR zcvf ${TARNAME} ${TARDIR}
rm -rf ${TARDIR}
echo -e "\033[0;32mPredictionIO binary distribution created at $TARNAME\033[0m"
