Re: The tar format problem continues

Patrick Mayweg wrote:

>> It turn out that WinZIP does not support the USTAR format that we use
>> for the source tarballs. Unfortunetely you don't get an error, but a
>> weird tree when you uncompress it.
>
> Perhaps pax will build an archive which can be read by winzip.

Unfortunately, it's a problem with the file format. I read the spec to
verify, and I tested with Solaris tar (which generates USTAR by default)
and pax.

> If we will build a zip file for windows user, we should a apr-iconv to
> it, since that is needed for building on windows. The only difference in
> the content of the apache tarballs and zipfiles is that the zipfile
> contains apr-iconv.

That sounds like a good idea.

/Tobias

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Received on Wed Mar 17 15:38:43 2004