Re: Automake and new tar

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

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:
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> > 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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