Andy,
Am 19.11.2010 22:38, schrieb Andy Polyakov via RT:
yes - that's same issue; I did delete my source tree, and extracted from
MSYS with:
tar xfhz openssl-1.0.0b.tar.gz
Is it correctly understood that in this context 'h' option simply omits
symbolic links? I get a bunch of "Cannot create symlink to" with
corresponding consequences. Configure then "recreates" them by copying
files symlinks should point to. Can you confirm this? A.
nope. See:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar
-h, --dereference
don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to
I dont see what you describe; but some more tests on MSYS show that it
works also correctly even when I extract the release archive with
standard command:
tar xfz openssl-1.0.0b.tar.gz
so I guess with 1st trial I did extract with 7-Zip (stupid habbit on
Windoze) which caused the symlinks stripped. MSYS tar seems clever
enough to dump the files when it sees symlinks ...
also did just some tests on Linux, and it seems that -h does only work
for archiving, but not extracting:
tar xfz openssl-1.0.0b.tar.gz
tar cf openssl-1.0.0b.tar openssl-1.0.0b/
tar chf openssl-1.0.0b-h.tar openssl-1.0.0b/
ll *.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21575680 Nov 20 03:15 openssl-1.0.0b-h.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19793920 Nov 20 03:15 openssl-1.0.0b.tar
when I extract with -h I can still see symlinks in ./test folder ...
apologies for not fully testing at 1st time. New patch below:
--- INSTALL.W32.orig 2010-07-09 14:31:41 +0000
+++ INSTALL.W32 2010-11-20 02:51:07 +0000
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@
MinGW and MSYS are available from http://www.mingw.org/, both are
required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes
to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH.
+ Since the release tarballs contain symlinks which Windows cant deal
+ with you must use MSYS tar in order to dereference the symlinks:
+ $ tar xfz openssl-x.y.zr.tar.gz
+ Dont use a GUI tool like 7-Zip or WinZip for extracting!
* Compile OpenSSL:
BTW. I tested with a relatively new MSYS version -> msysinfo:
MSYS 1.0.15(0.47/3/2) 2010-07-06 22:04 i686 unknown; targ=MINGW32
and:
gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC)
Günter.
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