Re[2]: bison-cvs on cygwin

[Oleg Smolsky]

Hello Paul,

Paul Eggert wrote on 21/11/2005 at 9:48 p.m.:
>> autoreconf-2.5x: running: autopoint --force
>> tar: Skipping to next header
>> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> That looks like a problem in the way that autopoint runs tar. I
> suspect it's this line in autopoint:
> gzip -d -c < "$gettext_dir/archive.tar.gz" | (cd "$cvs_dir" && tar xf -)
> Can you track the problem down from there?
I don't have a slightest clue about what's going on :(

Has anybody tried building the CVS/HEAD bison on cygwin? Can anybody
confirm the problem?

Best regards,
Oleg.