Adam Lally wrote:
If you've built the UIMA distribution you may have noticed lots of
warning messages like:
[WARNING] Entry:
uimaj-2.1.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT/uimaj-tools/src/test/resources/
pearTests/pearMergerTests/uima.example.DateTime.pear longer than 100
characters.
Here is an articlethat discusses the issue:
http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/07242003/. Apparently some
versions of tar won't be able to extract our archive.
It works fine on a Linux box with GNU tar 1.13.25. However it failed
to extract when I tried it from cygwin, even though it has a newer
version of GNU tar, 1.16. The error I got is:
tar: A lone zero block at 86945. I actually don't know if this is
related to the long file name problem. In both cases I'm using gnu
tar so I'm not sure why there would be a problem.
I'm not sure how significant this is or what can be done about it.
-Adam
Aix out of the box ships with a version of tar that can't handle these
files, either. I guess we should document the issue and tell people to
use the zip version if they have problems. There are unzip tools for
every platform nowadays.
--Thilo
