Re: The tar format problem continues

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Ringström 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.

>
> It would be easy to build a zip file for the Windows users along with
> the tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. I can modify dist.sh to do that, but
> I'd like to hear if you have any comments first.

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.

>
> /Tobias
>
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