Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm 2.4 questions

[Roger Leigh <roger whinlatter uklinux net>]

Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> writes:

> 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.

It's also been brought up on the automake mailing list.  The start of
the thread is here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2004-04/msg00005.html

It should be fixed with automake 1.9.


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Roger Leigh

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