Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/08/2005 01:01:39 PM: > I'm trying to build blead on VMS testdrive. It seems to be going wrong here: > > Making B (dynamic) > %MMS-W-GMFUTURE, Time for [--.LIB].EXISTS is in the future: 8-OCT-2005 13:46:42 > .00 > %MMS-W-GMFUTURE, Time for [--.LIB.AUTO.B].EXISTS is in the future: 8-OCT-2005 1 > 3:46:55.00 > %MMS-W-GMFUTURE, Time for [.BLIB.BIN].EXISTS is in the future: 8-OCT-2005 13:46 > :55.00
<snip> > bash$ uname -a > OpenVMS TD182 0 V8.2 AlphaServer_ES40 Alpha > > > Am I doing something daft here? Or is that machine confused as to what the > time is, so it's not my fault? I've no idea if my home directory is a network > mount, which is often a cause of fun on Unix. I presume you wanted to test out a recently created tar kit. I recommend that instead of extracting filename.tar with this: tar -xvf filename.tar that you do the following: tar /extract/verbose/date=none filename.tar so that the /date_policy does not get confused about the extracted file or directory timestamps. Peter Prymmer