-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been unable to 'make dist' gnome-themes-extras on Fedora due > to tar complaining: tar: > gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0/Gorilla/icons/scalable/mimetypes/gnome- > mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.impress.svg: file name is too long (max > 99); not dumped > > I was told today that the problem is that the new tar actually follows > the spec for the method that automake wants to use. So automake needs to > be fixed to not use the -o option to tar. The current automake release (1.9.3) allows one to select the tar format to use. It conservatively defaults to the old v7 format, but you can select a more up-to-date format which supports longer filenames. For example, in one of my projects which has very long pathnames, I use AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 tar-ustar]) to use POSIX tar. You could also use tar-pax to use the new POSIX PAX format (but this is rather new if you need to care about portability). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFBqKDpVcFcaSW/uEgRAkHrAJ9Gk/mkF7b0FJuUWiZGC1nF3+RvaACfSEN4 DW/wg8nDrfRm3QT3ABH8Sa8= =YQd4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----