I am not good with patches and cvs but I am willing to look what I can
do ;)

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:49 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> 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
> > 
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