make dist incompatible with long uids

2008-04-26 Thread Jerome Haltom
tar: value 1786588783 out of uid_t range 0..2097151 `make dist` using automake is causing this. Basically it's trying to use an old tar format. ustar or posix or whatever. Tar breaks when you have a long uid with this. Now, fixing tar would be an option, to use posix tars, and ignore long uids,

Re: make dist incompatible with long uids

2008-04-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jerome, * Jerome Haltom wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:22:05PM CEST: tar: value 1786588783 out of uid_t range 0..2097151 `make dist` using automake is causing this. Basically it's trying to use an old tar format. ustar or posix or whatever. Tar breaks when you have a long uid with

Re: flag question

2008-04-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Dickey wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: These options only work with GCC. If the compiler is GCC you can use them, otherwise skip them. The Intel compiler recognizes -Wall and -Werror (but not -pedantic in the version I have at hand). The Intel compiler was actively trying to be