On Thursday, April 26, 2018 7:01:05 PM CEST Christian Weisgerber wrote: > In the tar 1.30 release there was a problem with the difflink.at > test; this has been fixed in HEAD. However, the test still fails > on *BSD and there is an underlying portability issue. > > The preparatory part of the test runs this: > > mkdir a > genfile -f a/x > ln -s x a/y > ln a/y a/z > > What is the expected result?
It is regression test for 1bf590ab fix, which changed tar's reporting like: - a/z: Not linked to a/z + a/z: Not linked to a/y So one could add ./configure check to detect that 'ln -P' works, and then invent some test magic in difflink.at.. But IMO it would be fine enough to just fix the test so it is working with regular-file hardlinks. Pavel
