On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:10:39AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > On 3/1/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is required to unpack the source releases. Other > > > > versions of tar are likely to report errors or silently unpack the > > > > file incorrectly. > > > > The problem has nothing to do with warnings from tar, which are neither > > errors nor silent failures. I believe a file either got skipped or > > unpacked with the wrong name. > > Egads. Can you point me to more info? I've been building with older > versions of tar without any problem beyond the warnings.
I don't know where the report was. I think it was on this list in the last week or two. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
