> Update: I have tried to build the latest tar on my system, but I got the
> following errors - interestingly all to do with symlinks:
>
> 70: extrac07.at:27 extracting symlinks to a read-only dir
> extract extract07 read-only symlink
> 76: extrac13.at:26 extract over symlinks
> extract extrac13
> 90: incr01.at:27 restore broken symlinks from incremental
> incremental incr01
>
> I'll send the report to the tar people, but I suspect my system is somehow
> broken at a fundamental level.
I suspect that you are not using GNU tar while lilypond's tarball gets
created with GNU tar. Please retry to unpack with GNU tar.
Reason: GNU tar's default packaging mode was changed to
`--format=POSIX` some time ago (at least this is what I see on my
openSuSE box), and there are many tar programs in the BSD world that
don't understand this – inspite of the fact that the POSIX.1-2001
standard is 15 years old.
I suggest that we add option `--format=ustar' to tar to still use the
ancient POSIX.1-1988 standard.
Werner
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