Re: Automake and new tar

[Roger Leigh]

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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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