By the way, if anyone feels like helping out, and adding all this stuff to the website documentation and submitting a patch to the files in CVS:barry/doc/www, it would be much appreciated. :-)
The compile dependencies are listed in the install.php page, but some of these troubleshooting items are not. See also CVS:barry/doc/TroubleShooting.txt, which would be nice to have in web format, on its own page, under barry/doc/www. - Chris On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:43:36PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:35:00PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > Thanks installing dev-libs/libtar worked :) Unfortunately O got a new > > error: > > > > > tarfile-ops-nt.cc:107: error: invalid conversion from 'ssize_t (*)(int, > > > void*, size_t)' to 'ssize_t (*)(long int, void*, size_t)' > > Depending on what distro you are using, libtar has a bug in it, when it > tries to do 64-bit. This is a distro bug, not a bug in libtar. > > I've heard of ArchLinux and Mandriva having this bug. > > You can read more about the bug in this thread here: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20070803200729.GA7068%40foursquare.net > > What distro are you using? Are you compiling for 64 bit? Where did you > get the package for libtar? > > For RPM based systems, I've usually just downloaded the src.rpm from > the URL below, and build it myself: > > ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/libtar-1.2.11-9.fc8.src.rpm > > rpm -i libtar-1.2.11-9.fc8.src.rpm > (become root) > cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS > rpmbuild -ba libtar.spec > rpm -i ../RPMS/*/libtar*rpm > > - Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
