On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:03:12AM -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
Guillermo Espertino wrote:
I'm trying to compile r17131 and have problems with tar-pax I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and it compiled correctly before 17091. Since that I couldn't compile anymore. First I had automake 1.9, but I didn't even start (it asked for other version of automake). I removed 1.9 and installed 1.8.5 and it apparently started, but it returned this when running autogen.sh:
<snip /> > If I try to run make clean before running autogen.sh, it complains about > tar-pax too. > Any advise to workaround this?
Would it be possible to only inform/require tar-pax for making of the tarball? So very few people make a tarball. It is a pain for others to have to make updates to their system just to run autogen.sh when they don't need the tar-pax capability. If we could move the check to `make dist` there would probably be less grief and fewer questions.
Agreed. While this tar-pax change seemed like a good idea, it appears to be forcing non-obvious build problems on folks.
Bryce