On 11/3/2015 16:07, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently mingw-w64 release tarballs are using the posix tar format which is 
> the default for gnu tar for some time. But there is a bad consequence, 
> neither WinRAR or 7-zip can handle posix tar archives correctly.
> 
> So for the upcoming releases I suggest using tar --format=gnu which will use 
> the older well-supported gnu format.
> 
> P.S: This came to my attention due to 
> https://github.com/StephanTLavavej/mingw-distro/issues/13
> 

The tarballs are from git archive, looks like it can generate zip, I'll
do that next time for Windows users.


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