>>>>> Dan Kegel writes:
>> 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.
Dan> Egads. Can you point me to more info? I've been building with older
Dan> versions of tar without any problem beyond the warnings.
The problem I experienced was a missing last character of some
very long filenames when untarring. Some C++ header files with .hpp
prefix were untarred as .hp. Listing the files in the tarball displayed
the same filename truncation. Upgrading GNU tar to 1.15.1 fixed the
problem for me.
David
