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Re: [ft-devel] PaxHeaders directories when using BSD tar
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Roland Mainz |
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Re: [ft-devel] PaxHeaders directories when using BSD tar |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:19:14 +0100 |
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Stephen Fisher <address@hidden> wrote:
> I unpacked freetype-2.5.4 on a NetBSD 6.1.5 machine and the configure
> script failed like this:
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> # MAKE=gmake ./configure
> builds/PaxHeaders.20567/detect.mk:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
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> These PaxHeaders.xxx directories were created when using the standard
> BSD tar program. When I downloaded and used GNU tar the build worked
> fine. Can freetype be packaged using a more portable tar method?
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> (Please CC me as I'm not on the list)
Creating the archive with pax(1) should be sufficient for portability...
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Roland
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