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Re: GCC 4.1.0 Released
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:05:52AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is required to unpack the source releases. Other
> > versions of tar are likely to report errors or silently unpack the
> > file incorrectly.
>
> Now hold on there, bubaloo.
> I thought the warnings from older versions of tar were benign.
> The warnings I'm seeing from tar-1.13.19 are
> tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
> Searching for this error message, I find a quote from Linus Torvalds,
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5):
The problem has nothing to do with warnings from tar, which are neither
errors nor silent failures. I believe a file either got skipped or
unpacked with the wrong name.
> 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is recommended to unpack the source releases. Other
> versions of tar may issue the warning
> tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
> and/or silently create spurious files named 'pax_global_header'.
> These are artifacts reflecting the fact that the tarballs were
> created with git.
The tarballs most certainly weren't created with git.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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