On 2013-07-25 15:31-0400 Brad King wrote:
On 07/24/2013 03:27 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
The first priority is to verify on Microsoft Windows that this is
actually an issue using the the simple test I outlined in my previous
post.
At a MSYS prompt under MS Windows this works:
$ cat a.tar.xz | unxz | tar x
but this hangs:
$ cmake -E tar xvf a.tar.xz
One can see in the process tree that there is a child process of
"cmake" called "unxz" that was started with no command line arguments.
One can attach a debugger to see CMake blocked inside libarchive code.
This confirms that the hang occurs on MS Windows just as in Wine.
I suggest getting upstream libarchive and building its sample
tools but without lzma support built-in. Then try using that
binary to extract the .tar.xz file.
Thanks, Brad, for that Microsoft Windows confirmation, and I will
follow your advice for the rest to try and track down whether the
problem is for the libarchive upstream version or the libarchive
version within CMake. With luck I should be able to come up with a
fix as well (since drop-through to command-line handling of *.tar.xz
should be completely straightforward) assuming the MSYS version of gdb
works similarly to the Linux version (which I am familiar with).
Alan
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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).
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