Re: [Denemo-devel] tar 99 char exceded by actions dir

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 16:56 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 09:49 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > Ok. Thanks for posting this. I am getting warnings from tar when  
> > running make dist. I also the files not included in the tarbal that  
> > gave me the warnings. 
> 
> presumably the tar is not the most recent, or, more likely, is by
> default running in some compatibility mode. I guess we just inherit the
> incatation
incantation
> for the invocation of tar from standard templates? Maybe they
> were inherited a long time ago?
> The worst case is if this limitation is still the norm today - even
> worse some filesystems may restrict the path length. If any of this is
> the case we will have some work to do.
> 
> What I quoted is the current documentation for gnu tar. But I noticed it
> referred to earlier things which had already left that restriction
> behind. So, I rather doubt it is that you have an old version, but
> perhaps it runs by default in some restrictive mode.
> Nils - could you try to gub the version with the deep menus (this is the
> master I presume, Jeremiah?) and see if the mingw environment has this
> problem?
> 
> If you can look into this stuff, I can make a start on the MIDI playback
> cursor stuff, as I think I have finished everything else now.
well, nearly,
I still have navigation StaffUp Down, goto end etc without disturbing
the selection.
Richard

> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> > I will have to look into this somehow. If tar  
> > has no such limit why is it doing this?
> > 
> > Jeremiah
> > 
> > On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:5AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >> From the gnu tar website:
> > >
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC113
> > >
> > >
> > > Archive format defined by POSIX.1-2001 specification. This is the most
> > > flexible and feature-rich format. It does not impose any  
> > > restrictions on
> > > file sizes or file name lengths.
> > >
> > > So I think we should be ok with suitable software?
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:25 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >> tar has a limit of 99 characters per file. This is a problem  
> > >> because some dir in actions go deep enough to exceed this. We need  
> > >> to start thinking of a new solution.
> > >>
> > >> Jeremiah
> > >>
> > >>
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