Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

with the automake distribution. This is the idiom I myself use when in need of a clean rebuild: $ ./bootstrap $ eval ./configure $(./config.status --config) $ make all Thank you, Stefano, the problem has been temporarily resolved. Thanks, Xufeng Zhang HTH, Stefano

Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

On 11/26/2010 06:37 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Friday 26 November 2010, xufeng zhang wrote: On 11/26/2010 06:39 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Just a hunch: have you built the automake and aclocal scripts *before* modifying tar.m4? If you haven't, well, you should build them

Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

On 11/26/2010 06:39 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2010, xufeng zhang wrote: Hi, I want to modify m4/tar.m4 in automake-1.11.1, however, after I made the change, build automake failed, here is the build error

Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

may be able to skip autoreconf, I'm not sure. Cheers, Dave Hart Thank for your check, Dave, it's just modifying tar.m4 lead to my compile problem. Thanks, Xufeng Zhang

Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

or directory Makefile:337: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127 I know it is caused by the timestamp mess up, so I want to know if there is a way to do this? Many thanks. Thanks, Xufeng Zhang

Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?

On 11/24/2010 11:03 AM, xufeng zhang wrote: Hi, I want to modify m4/tar.m4 in automake-1.11.1, however, after I made the change, build automake failed, here is the build error: --- Compiling: automake

Re: Question about automake fails to pass the correct parameters to pax when using large UID/GID

On 10/30/2010 03:37 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Xufeng Zhang, thanks for the report. * xufeng zhang wrote on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:24:18AM CEST: I'm a developer from WindRiver, and I have a question about automake. When I using a large UID/GID(2097151) to configure and build

Re: Question about automake fails to pass the correct parameters to pax when using large UID/GID

On 11/08/2010 03:03 PM, Dave Hart wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:56 AM, xufeng zhangxufeng.zh...@windriver.com wrote: On 10/30/2010 03:37 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I don't think there is much that can be done about this in Automake, as [...] If you still think that

Question about automake fails to pass the correct parameters to pax when using large UID/GID

limitation of UID/GID for ustar archive format (Maximum value of UID/GID is 2097151). So if it is proper to increase the limitation for UID/GID in ustar? I don't know if there is any considerations for this limitation? Thanks, Xufeng Zhang