Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday 23 of July 2014 09:31:49 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> ...
>> Messy, very messy, testsuite.log attached. What did I do wrong?
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> ...
>
> Turned out I had to rebuild and reinstall amanda to effect that path
> change.  I have a script that automates that.
>
> However, 1.27.1 did pass ALL of amanda's "amcheck" and "make check" tests.
>
> But a megabyte of log, 1/2 of which is "FAILED"? Genuine spooky.  But
> we'll see if the email from amanda is any less mouthy tonight...

This is just small problem in Makefile.am (and not your fault at all) that
the testsuite-related binaries was not built for you.  To workaround that,
run 'make check' before 'make installcheck'.

Also, we could consider pushing attached patch.

Pavel

0001-tests-build-testing-binaries-for-installcheck.patch
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