On Sun, Oct 25, 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] > Seems this is a bug in the tar program on your OS: this should be > '0000755(nul)' in the 8 bytes 101:108. And that's in every account of the > tar format I have found, including the former POSIX standard. > > (Note to Peter D: we don't use getOct for this one, as it is not a field > that is allowed to be space-padded.) > > I guess we need to work around this ... to a large extent we have got away > with using tar format in the past because everyone was using GNU tar, but > others are coming into use. > > [A quick check confirms that bsdtar from the libarchive project does this, > as used by Snow Leopard and AFAIK FreeBSD >= 8. So I can reproduce it.]
Thanks for the confirmation. I installed gtar and, as indicated by config.site, it is picked up by configure and I now pass -gmake check-. h. -- +--- | Hiroyuki Kawakatsu | Business School, Dublin City University | Dublin 9, Ireland. Tel +353 (0)1 700 7496 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
