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Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.29] testsuite: 70 76 90 failed
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.29] testsuite: 70 76 90 failed |
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Thu, 16 Jun 2016 07:58:07 +0200 |
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Hi Giulio,
On Saturday, June 11, 2016 11:32:12 PM CEST Giulio Agostini wrote:
> I tried to make the latest tar on my shared system (hosted on Hostmonster,
> CentOS 6.7), but some tests (make check) failed, see attached.
> The reason I was trying to upgrade was because I had problems installing
> Lilypond, which makes use of tar, and my old version (1.23) had problems
> with extracting symlinks.
the 1.29 testsuite fails exactly because your (file)system has troubles with
symlinks (upgrade to 1.29 will most probably won't help).
I can't tell why this does not work for you:
mkdir dst1
ln -s target1 dst1/file1
echo target1 >dst1/target1
Pavel