Re: [Bug-tar] Build fail on PowerPC 64

2013-03-22 Thread Pavel Raiskup 
 Hi, with the default configuration of GNU tar, the build fail on PowerPC 64 
 bit
 machine with:

Some additional info:

 $ rpm -q glibc gcc
 glibc-2.16-28.fc18.ppc64p7
 gcc-4.7.2-8.fc18.ppc64

Pavel

Re: [Bug-tar] Build fail on PowerPC 64

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Eggert 
On 03/22/13 03:29, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
 Hi, with the default configuration of GNU tar

How did you run 'configure'?  What is the contents of
config.log, and of config.h?

Re: [Bug-tar] Build fail on PowerPC 64

2013-03-22 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz 

May I suggest that megabyte-sized text files be attached compressed:

$ ls -o config.log*
-rw-r--r--  1 antonio 936144 2013-03-22 18:43 config.log
-rw-r--r--  1 antonio  41109 2013-03-22 18:43 config.log.lz

It took me 5 minutes to download the message, and the mail program 
locked to death trying to quote the whole thing when I first tried to reply.



Thanks,
Antonio.

Re: [Bug-tar] Build fail on PowerPC 64

2013-03-22 Thread Bob Proulx 
Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
 May I suggest that megabyte-sized text files be attached compressed:

Yes, please.

 $ ls -o config.log*
 -rw-r--r--  1 antonio 936144 2013-03-22 18:43 config.log
 -rw-r--r--  1 antonio  41109 2013-03-22 18:43 config.log.lz
 
 It took me 5 minutes to download the message, and the mail program
 locked to death trying to quote the whole thing when I first tried
 to reply.

As one of the volunteer listhelpers I usually try to catch those
extremely large messages in the mailman hold queue before they are
sent through.  Then I address it manually there by either asking the
poster to re-send the message compressed or I do it myself.  Although
I am only one of the team and others often send large messages through
anyway.  Also lists.gnu.org often satuates the network bandwidth doing
nothing but mailing list traffic due to large messages.  With the
large multiplier of the numbr of subscribers this can quickly create a
huge amount of bandwidth.

Except the size limit for bug-tar was disabled and so it wasn't
possible to catch it there.  I reinstated the typical 100K limit.

Bob

Re: [Bug-tar] Build fail on PowerPC 64

2013-03-22 Thread Pavel Raiskup 
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 12:56 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
 Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
 May I suggest that megabyte-sized text files be attached compressed:

 Yes, please.

Really sorry for that - I missed the size.

 I reinstated the typical 100K limit.

Thanks a lot for this ^^^ and for all your work!

Pavel