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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 10:49:55 Pavel Raiskup did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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'.

Humm, maybe the INSTALL file should recommend that?
> 
> Also, we could consider pushing attached patch.
> 
> Pavel


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS