Re: build failure due to missing svg files

[Ben Pfaff]

[re-adding the list, not sure how it got dropped.]

Success!

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:07 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Automake has an option for ustar, so I enabled that and am rerunning the 
> build.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:23 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 10:15 AM John Darrington 
> > <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:16:32AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >>      The build currently fails because some svg files are missing:
> >>
> >>      make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> >>      
> >> 'src/ui/gui/artwork/scalable/actions/psppire-transform-in-to-different-variables.svg',
> >>      needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
> >>
> >>      See 
> >> https://benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/20200706160924/x86_64/log.html#2892
> >>
> >> The reason seems to be here:
> >>
> >> 5048  tar: 
> >> pspp-1.3.0-gbcd0f2/src/ui/gui/artwork/scalable/actions/psppire-transform-in-to-different-variables.svg:
> >>  file name is too long (max 99); not dumped
> >>
> >> I'm suprised that tar can't handle lines more than 99 chars long.
> >
> >
> > We can either try to somehow force tar to use the newer ustar format, or 
> > shorten the name. Probably shortening the name is less risky (and supported 
> > more widely).
> >