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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > - -- > Roger Leigh > Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ > Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ > GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your > mail. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> > > iD8DBQFBqKDpVcFcaSW/uEgRAkHrAJ9Gk/mkF7b0FJuUWiZGC1nF3+RvaACfSEN4 > DW/wg8nDrfRm3QT3ABH8Sa8= > =YQd4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
