On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:06:59AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Damien, > >Huh... this is interesting. > >Turns out that Cygwin's tar doesn't work the same as the tar version >that is in the XFree86 souce tree in the utils module. I built their >"gnu-tar" and used it to build the packages and it did include the >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config directory in the prog package, as it is >supposed to. I tried messing with the Xprog-list and Xprog-excl files >to get Cygwin's tar to build the archive properly, but it just wouldn't >do it. I will be uploading XFree86-prog-4.3.0-2.tar.bz2 shortly.
This is the first I've ever heard that cygwin's tar is unable to include directories in a tar ball. Since cygwin's tar is GNU tar, it's hard to see why it would operate differently. Do you have a specific failing case? -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com
