--- Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tar -jvxf ../essential-20050412.tar.bz2 \ > -C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --strip-components=1 > > and tar complained. It even told me to check the "help." How dare it!! > :-) > > So, I checked the help and changed '--strip-components=1' to > '--strip-path=1' and the rest of the codec build continued without > incident.
It looks like tar has changed its command-line option. It says on the GNU page that as of Tar 1.15 (2004-12-20), the option was "renamed to --strip-components". So, it depends on which Tar you are using, I suppose. I tend not to use that option, anyway. My normal operation would be to just untar and then manually 'mv' the files from deep within the directory structure, if needed. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
