On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:19:10AM +0000, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> Automake defaults to the 'v7' legacy tar format in GNU tar, through
> passing of the '-o' parameter to GNU tar. Enabling this option results
> in errors for users with 32 bit UIDs:
>
> $ make dist
> ...
> tardir=openvswitch-2.3.90 && ${TAR-tar} chof - "$tardir" | GZIP=--best
> gzip -c >openvswitch-2.3.90.tar.gz
> tar: value 12345678 out of uid_t range 0..2097151
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/development/ovs'
> ...
>
> The 'tar-ustar' format is a 1988 POSIX standard that allow longer file
> names and other niceties. It's use is an option in Automake 1.9+.
> Enable this option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Mark D. Gray <[email protected]>
Doesn't this affect every program that uses Automake? Have you
reported it to the Automake mailing list? Is there an upstream fix?
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