Re: [Bug-tar] new/old extract problems with 6GB sparse file

[Joerg Delker]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
>  Joerg Delker <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Well, unfortunately more problems with that:
> >
> > $ star xvjf jake.ntfs.tar.bz2 x jake_winxp.ntfs 6292304384 bytes,
> > 6162300 tape blocks Segmentation fault
> >
> > Extract the file up to 4335726080 bytes and then throws SEGFAULT.
>
>  So it helps you more than GNU tar ;-)
>
>  Could you send a stack trace from the core?

Uhh... I haven't dived into core analysis yet.
Do you have short instructions how to retrieve that?

> > That's with star: star 1.5a67 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
> >
> > I tried to compile the latest version (5a74) myself , but that
> > fails with
> > 
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> >  /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h: In function
> > '__alloc_percpu': /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error:
> > 'GFP_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: (Each undeclared
> > identifier is reported only once
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: for each function
> > it appears in.) /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: warning:
> > initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:47: warning: incompatible
> > implicit declaration of built-in function 'memset'
> > 
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> >  during compile (using linux kernel headers 2.6.15/16).
> >
> > Any more hints?
>
>  The Linux Kernel guys don't like to fix the bugs/incnosistencies in
>  their include files. Try to rename /usr/src/linux

You mean "rename" in the sense of "move out of the way"?
Already tried that, but Gmake complains about missing files then:
...
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h', needed by 
`OBJ/i686-linux-cc/tartest.o'.  Stop.
...

Joerg