Thanks for reporting that. I installed this patch: >From 4895f03fc4aed356c1bb0e9c7ea8eeb95d308244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:33:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tar: port to Mingw Shell
* src/extract.c (extract_symlink) [!HAVE_SYMLINK]: Fix typo by replacing WARN_SYMBOLIC_CAST with WARN_SYMLINK_CAST. Problem reported by kaka in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-06/msg00008.html>. --- src/extract.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/extract.c b/src/extract.c index faee4eb..319aaa8 100644 --- a/src/extract.c +++ b/src/extract.c @@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ extract_symlink (char *file_name, int typeflag) if (!warned_once) { warned_once = 1; - WARNOPT (WARN_SYMBOLIC_CAST, + WARNOPT (WARN_SYMLINK_CAST, (0, 0, _("Attempting extraction of symbolic links as hard links"))); } -- 1.7.11.7
