Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: > > Problem writing tar (with Cygwin default sys) symlinks before target > > created under Cygwin 3.5.0 - error messages are issued and tar exits > > with failure status! > […] > > The only likely culprit between 3.4.6 and that commit seems to be > > commit 2023-04-18 fa84aa4dd2fb43eaf7fcdfb040aef854f2f19d01 Cygwin: fix > > errno values set by readlinkat. > > > > Still seems to work as expected despite the error messages and failure > > status. > > > > Runs without any messages or failure under Cygwin stable 3.4.6. > > The interface mentioned above is known to be wonky on various systems. > You might need to re-build tar in oder for it to detect any changed > level of wonkiness and adapt accordingly.
On Cygwin 3.4.7, recompiling tar from the source package fixes this problem; the resulting binary then seems to be fine on Cygwin 3.4.6 as well. Please could tar 1.34 be re-packaged? All best, David -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
