--- Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > 'make dist-gzip' on OpenBSD produces several of these: > > > > tar: File name too long for tar > kaffe-1.1.x-cvs/libraries/javalib/META-INF/services/javax.sound.sampled.spi.FormatConversionProvider > > tar: File name too long for tar > kaffe-1.1.x-cvs/libraries/javalib/org/tritonus/share/sampled/convert/TAsynchronousFilteredAudioInputStream.java > > ... > > This is annoying the heck out of me. I first saw this with our viewcvs > interface on the the website, which allowed people tar files, but I had > to disable it because it couldn't do long filenames. > > And now a lot of people are finding that it doesn't work on their > platform because they don't have a tar that supports GNU tar extensions. > > Unfortunately, 100 characters isn't a very long name, given classes > named like above. > > I'd like to eliminate the dependency on GNU tar. But I'm not sure what > the best way to do this is. Any ideas?
zip should be able to handle longer filenames thatn tar, but doesn't compress that well. cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
