Hello Jack,
that's sound better than my proposed patched.
It's shorter and more understandable.
Yes you are right that user should be informed for testing ustar format.
Best regards
Petr
On 03/20/2013 12:55 PM, Jack Kelly wrote:
Hi Petr, I have a couple of observations:
- AC_MSG_ERROR is g
Hi Petr, I have a couple of observations:
- AC_MSG_ERROR is going to stop the configure anyway, so you don't need
exit 1.
- I'd suggest the following messages for your AC_MSG_ERRORS:
"the uid is too large for ustar-format tarfiles. Change format in
configure.ac"
"the gid is too large fo
Hello Stefano,
one more time. wrong patch file name.
[stone@kiasportyw automake(master)]$ cat
0001-maint-pax-hangs-in-case-big-UID.patch
From af7d2d01b363914ce22628dae06f87065649d402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Hracek
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:41:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: pax h
Hello Stefano,
in order to help you with that bug I have prepared patch for that issue:
diff --git a/m4/tar.m4 b/m4/tar.m4
index ec8c83e..87477f1 100644
--- a/m4/tar.m4
+++ b/m4/tar.m4
@@ -81,6 +81,27 @@ do
AM_RUN_LOG([tardir=conftest.dir && eval $am__tar_ >conftest.tar])
rm -rf conftest.d
