I created an xz-compressed test tarball on Linux using the J option
tar Jcf test.tar.xz ... On Linux, cmake -E tar xfz test.tar.xz unpacks that tarball without issue. For MSYS (on a Wine-1.6-rc4 platform), that same command hangs indefinitely. Wine often does not respond well to ordinary errors so I used ctrl-C to get out of the hang, and the following message was displayed on the command line: unxz: (stdin): File format not recognized To remove the Wine uncertainty could someone attempt a similar MSYS experiment on the Microsoft version of Windows? However, assuming that verification succeeds, then that error message is only delivered if you attempt to do something like (under MSYS) bash.exe-3.1$ cat non-tar.xz_file |unxz -c > test_file so I assume that is what cmake is trying to do, and there is some issue accessing the correct file. For example, if I execute (under MSYS) bash.exe-3.1$ cat test.tar.xz |unxz -c >test2.tar the resulting tarball, test2.tar is fine. Also, you can create and also unpack xz-compressed tarballs under MSYS using the J option. So on MSYS platforms the command-line tools are working fine for manipulating xz-compressed tarballs, but cmake -E tar xfz test.tar.xz fails (and also appears to be using the unxz command-line tool that is not correctly finding the xz-compressed tarball). I suspect this is a trivial issue since the xz-related command-line tools all work on MSYS, but as always the difficult thing to do with CMake is to find where the issue is occurring. I starting looking in Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive, but any additional guidance would be appreciated. Note, the above MSYS tests were done using the Windows binary version of cmake-2.8.11.2 that was obtained by wget "http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.11.2-win32-x86.zip"; unzip cmake-2.8.11.2-win32-x86.zip Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
