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mingw-w64's source tar shouldn't emit pax_global_header #13

Closed StephanTLavavej closed 8 years ago

StephanTLavavej commented 8 years ago

Extracting mingw-w64's source tar with 7-Zip emits a pax_global_header file, which I have to delete.

ismail commented 8 years ago

Just to tell why this happens. New versions of tar defaults to POSIX format which neither 7-zip nor WinRAR can handle correctly. Either you use a new gnu tar to extract or mingw-w64 just start compressing their tarballs with tar --format=gnu ...

ismail commented 8 years ago

Since this is not just an aesthetic issue (the tarball might be extracted incorrectly), I reported this to upstream: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.w64.general/12015

JonY's reply:

The tarballs are from git archive, looks like it can generate zip, I'll do that next time for Windows users.

So next time, you can use the zip archive instead.

StephanTLavavej commented 8 years ago

Thanks @ismail ! The next time I update mingw-w64, I'll use the zip, modify my script accordingly, and close this issue.

ismail commented 8 years ago

With 4.0.5 release we have zip files:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.5.zip https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.5.zip.asc https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.5.zip.sig

We can close this bug now :-)

StephanTLavavej commented 8 years ago

Thanks for letting me know. I'll close this when I build a new distro and update my scripts.