Hi Giulio, On Saturday, June 11, 2016 11:32:12 PM CEST Giulio Agostini wrote: > I tried to make the latest tar on my shared system (hosted on Hostmonster, > CentOS 6.7), but some tests (make check) failed, see attached. > The reason I was trying to upgrade was because I had problems installing > Lilypond, which makes use of tar, and my old version (1.23) had problems > with extracting symlinks.
the 1.29 testsuite fails exactly because your (file)system has troubles with symlinks (upgrade to 1.29 will most probably won't help). I can't tell why this does not work for you: mkdir dst1 ln -s target1 dst1/file1 echo target1 >dst1/target1 Pavel