From: Jonathan Watt <jwatt(a)jwatt.org&gt; tar on macOS recognizes XZ compression automatically, but that is not the case for GNU tar (1.32 at least). On Fedora 33 the current instructions result in the following error: $ xz -c libvirt-6.9.0.tar.xz | tar xvf - tar: Archive is compressed. Use -J option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Jonathan Watt <jwatt(a)jwatt.org&gt; --- Pushed as a trivial patch from gitlab docs/compiling.html.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/compiling.html.in b/docs/compiling.html.in index c898d16313..c2c9d9f0ed 100644 --- a/docs/compiling.html.in +++ b/docs/compiling.html.in @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ </p> <pre> -$ xz -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf - +$ xz -dc libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf - $ cd libvirt-x.x.x $ meson build</pre> -- 2.28.0