On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:03:05 -0800, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
% gunzip -c boost_1_31_0.tar.gz | tar xf - tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown [...] This is a familiar problem for us. It only happens when the tar file was created under Linux. Our workaround is to make tar files for multi-platform distributions on a non-Linux machine.
Normal "tar" can only cope with pathnames up to 100 characters long. There are 10 files in "boost-1.30.0/*" that exceed this limit - they are the ones that will lead to GNU tar introducing "long links". (All of them under boost-1.30.0/libs/test/doc/components/unit_test_framework/components/ btw) If the guilty files are suitably renamed/moved then GNU tar won't generate long links... phil -- change name before "@" to "phil" for email