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Problems with GNU tar 1.11

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From: Richard Lloyd
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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