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- From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
- Subject: Problems with GNU tar 1.11
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:48:27 GMT
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- From: R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:38:51 GMT
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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"]
-
- Not surprising. Tar wouldn't lint well...
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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).
-
- Nobody should need this; please don't pick it up. All the bugs
- mentioned in this article have been fixed, and an intermediate release
- will be made today including them and some other bugs. I'm not able
- to fix bugs in multiple divergent distributions. The standard
- distribution should run on HP-UX just fine.
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