Re: Bug in tar-section

2005-07-28 Thread Roland Ramthun
Peter Reilly schrieb: > From the ant manual: > "Early versions of tar did not support path lengths greater than 100 > characters. Modern versions of tar do so, but in incompatible ways. The > behaviour of the tar task when it encounters such paths is controlled by > the /longfile/ attribute. If the

Re: Bug in tar-section

2005-07-28 Thread Peter Reilly
From the ant manual: "Early versions of tar did not support path lengths greater than 100 characters. Modern versions of tar do so, but in incompatible ways. The behaviour of the tar task when it encounters such paths is controlled by the /longfile/ attribute. If the longfile attribute is set t

Re: Bug in tar-section

2005-07-28 Thread Roland Ramthun
Steve Loughran wrote: >> Please fix this problem. >> If you utilise code of another GNU project for the tar section of ant, >> please forward this email to them or give me their contact address and I >> will do so. > > > I'm not sure if we want to fix it. This is not me being selfish, it is > th

Re: Bug in tar-section

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Loughran
Roland Ramthun wrote: Hello, we are using Ant to build the software we provide. We have a section in our buildfile, which tars and gzips the program at the end of the build process. Some days ago an users complained about problems unpacking this archive using WinRAR. Another user had problems un