Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.46

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 09:51 -0700, John Faith wrote:

FYI, in case anyone else is using an old version of tar... When I extracted inkscape-0.46.tar.bz2 using tar 1.13 on OS X 10.3, some files were missing or filenames truncated, namely stuff in packaging/macosx/Resources/themes/Clearlooks-Quicksilver-OSX/gtk-2.0.

I was able to work around this by extracting with tar 1.15 in macports.

Yes, we resolved it by switching to the POSIX standard format for tar files instead of the GNU specific version. Sorry you got hit by it.

--Ted

PS - For those following this at home 10.3 was released in 2003 but GNU tar released in 1.13, 1999 -- but 1.14 in 2004. Which is why they missed the POSIX standard update in 2001. Wow, I know WAY too much about tar now.