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- From: R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.UK (Richard Lloyd)
- Subject: Problems with GNU tar 1.11
- Message-ID: <BuKrGs.1qn@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:38:51 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I got GNU tar 1.11 compiled on our HP 9000/720 machines running HP-UX 8.07, but not after some struggles:
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- [Note that if you set CFLAGS to any optimisation level (e.g. +O3), create.c
- generates some very "dangerous" compiler warnings about optimisation. It's a
- message about "differences between two arrays won't be properly optimised"]
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- Source code changes:
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- buffer.c and extract.c had some cpp directives indented by one column, which
- isn't right.
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- SERIOUS BUG IN list.c:
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- The "v" option of "tar cvf" was only printing blank lines for the filenames !
- After comparing 1.10 and 1.11, it was clear that a new variable had been
- substituted in list.c (current_file_name) that wasn't properly set up. I
- changed it back to the old 1.10 variable (although it was now arch_name rather than name) and tar cvf correctly printed the filenames out.
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- A modified version of tar 1.11 for HP-UX machines is now available from our
- anonymous FTP site, ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk (138.253.42.172).
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- Archive Librarian, E-mail: ftp@csc.liv.ac.uk
- Computer Science Dept.,
- Liverpool University,
- Merseyside, England,
- Great Britain.
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