Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.

2008-03-04 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:56 AM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First I would need to find out what a VPATH build is. A VPATH build is one where the sources and object files live in different directories. For example: mkdir compile tar zxf /tmp/blah.-1.0.tar.gz cd compile ../blah

Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.

2008-03-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello John, * John E. Malmberg wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:01:46AM CET: In tests/testsuite : VMS can not deal with having a file/directory named testname and testname.dir in the same directory. This is because all directories are named .dir, and to be more POSI

Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.

2008-03-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello John, * John E. Malmberg wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:01:46AM CET: > In tests/testsuite : > > VMS can not deal with having a file/directory named testname and > testname.dir in the same directory. > > This is because all directories are named .dir, and to be more POSIX > friendly, VM

[patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.

2008-03-02 Thread John E. Malmberg
I have TAR passing the pipe test, so I though it would be a good point to pass the source changes I needed so far. TODO: I still have to add the vfork/exec/pipe code from the VMS bash port so that the compression options work. In lib/alloca.in.h : VMS needs a definition for the built-in __AL