Johannes Schmidt-Fischer wrote:
It seems to be a problem with too long file names in the source tarball.
When inspecting the tarball with HP-UX's tar you see some file names
"././@LongLink" following seemingly too long file names in the "tar -tv"
listing. This is the case for the following two directories:
[...]
The current work-around is to use GNU tar for unpacking but as discussed
earlier in this discussion group it shouldn't be necessary to have any
GNU tools installed for making net-snmp (last time the discussion was
about needing gmake for making net-snmp).

Violently agreed. Unfortunately it looks as if we're currently packing the net-snmp source distribution in a proprietary, non-POSIX-compliant (GNU) tar format which will cause pain for POSIX tar users. Bad us. I truly hope we'll do better in subsequent releases.


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)


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