On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:43 -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? >
I am using Gentoo 32-bit I got the libtar package from portage. Strangely enough I didn't found a bug for libtar: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+libtar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
