Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Sunday 18 December 2005 18:33, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > I just tried to run "make distcheck" and discovered that the make dist
| > target are not able to create the tar files due to too long file
| > paths. (limit of 99 char).
| >
| > To rectify this the paramter "tar-ustar" is required to as a automake
| > option... This option is not settable through AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in
| > common.am, but must be set in the call to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. So I did
| > that.
|
| I get now
|
| configure.ac:24: option `tar-ustar' not recognized
|
| with automake 1.7.9. This is only a warning in autogen.sh, but it make aborts
| with an error:
|
| cd .. && \
| /bin/sh /home/georg/sw/src/lyx-1.4-cvs/config/missing --run automake-1.7
| --foreign Makefile
| configure.ac:24: option `tar-ustar' not recognized
| make: *** [../Makefile.in] Fehler 1
|
| And no, I don't know why it wants to rebuild Makefile.in, it should be up to
| date.
| Does this mean that atomake 1.7 is not supported anymore?
Too old... If we want to support it we have to fix the Mac paths...
they are longer than 99 characters. (old tar formats cannot handle that)
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Lgb
