On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 21:59 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > Hi Automake hackers, > > I am maintainer of a GNOME module called gnome-themes-extras containing > a set of metathemes for the GNOME desktop. After upgrading my distro I > have been unable to 'make dist' gnome-themes-extras on Fedora due to tar > complaining: > tar: gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0/Gorilla/icons/scalable/mimetypes/gnome- > mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.impress.svg: file name is too long (max > 99); not dumped > > I was told today that the problem is that the new tar actually follows > the spec for the method that automake wants to use. So automake needs to > be fixed to not use the -o option to tar. > > Is this a known problem, is there some bugzilla somewhere I can > report this? Anyone know if/when a release which handles this is planed?
Apologies if I missed someone answering this, but its hitting us (squid-cache) as well, we can no longer do a make dist on up-to-date systems. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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