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Re: Automake and new tar
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller |
Subject: |
Re: Automake and new tar |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:34:47 +0100 |
Hi Roger,
Thanks for the tip! This solved the issue for me.
Christian
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:44 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
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> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I have been unable to 'make dist' gnome-themes-extras on Fedora due
> > to tar complaining: tar:
> > gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0/Gorilla/icons/scalable/mimetypes/gnome-
> > mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.impress.svg: file name is too long (max
> > 99); not dumped
> >
> > I was told today that the problem is that the new tar actually follows
> > the spec for the method that automake wants to use. So automake needs to
> > be fixed to not use the -o option to tar.
>
> The current automake release (1.9.3) allows one to select the tar
> format to use. It conservatively defaults to the old v7 format, but
> you can select a more up-to-date format which supports longer
> filenames. For example, in one of my projects which has very long
> pathnames, I use
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 tar-ustar])
>
> to use POSIX tar. You could also use tar-pax to use the new POSIX PAX
> format (but this is rather new if you need to care about portability).
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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