Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm 2.4 questions

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 19:36 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 15:14 +0200, Frank Naumann wrote:
> >> Also after compiling and installing gtkmm I found some classG*.html files 
> >> from the gtkmm distribution documentation in the parent directory of the 
> >> gtkmm build directory.
> >
> > Yes, I am trying to fix.
> 
> In case you are unaware: this is due to a change in GNU tar, which now
> creates a UNIX v7 archive which cannot represent long paths since the
> meaning of -o changed.  I got this with long doxygen filenames.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241451
> 
> has more information.  My patch on the page fixes this by creating
> POSIX tarfiles, at the expense of not being able to read those files
> in older tar versions (including IIRC the current stable version...).
> The next version of automake will fix the problem more portably, I
> believe.

Thanks a lot. I hope you or the debian maintainer submitted this
upstream to the automake maintainer.

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Murray Cumming
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