Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 05:11 schrieb Grzegorz B. Prokopski:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to help from Bdale the problem seems to boil down to using "o"
> option in 'tar chof' which turns on old, v7 mode, which doesn't allow
> for paths longer than 100 chars. Old tar worked because it forced
> usage of POSIX tar settings even when asked otherwise (it was a bug).
>
> $ grep -R chof .
> ./Makefile:   $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c
>
> >$(distdir).tar.gz
>
> ./Makefile:   $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c
>
> >$(distdir).tar.gz
>
> ./Makefile.in:        $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c
>
> >$(distdir).tar.gz
>
> ./Makefile.in:        $(AMTAR) chof - $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c
>
> >$(distdir).tar.gz
>
> So this options seems to come from automake as it's not present in
> Makefile.am, but put into Makefile.in. Is there some way to persuade
> automake not to enforce old compatibility mode when using tar?

Thanks for debugging this. What versions of automake have you tried ? 
Perhaps we should get more restrict on the version. Have you considered 
writting a bug report agains automake ?


Michael



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