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Article #840Problems with GNU tar 1.11
From: Richard Lloyd
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:38
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:38
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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: [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"] Source code changes: buffer.c and extract.c had some cpp directives indented by one column, which isn't right. SERIOUS BUG IN list.c: 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. 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). Archive Librarian, E-mail: ftp@csc.liv.ac.uk Computer Science Dept., Liverpool University, Merseyside, England, Great Britain.
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!csc.liv.ac.UK!R.K.Lloyd 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 Lines: 31