On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:20:22AM +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-pax' format is a 2001 POSIX standard that allow longer file
> names and other niceties. Its use is a configuration option in Automake
> 1.9+. Enable this option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen.finuc...@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark D. Gray <mark.d.g...@intel.com>
> Cc: Panu Matilainen <pmati...@laiskiainen.org>
Applied, thanks!
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