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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> > Oh, OK.  I didn't know that this was a restatement of that problem
> > (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00932.html>).  Did you try
> > running tar on the affected systems with strace?  Perhaps a comparison
> > of the output from a machine where it's failing and the same from one
> > that doesn't would provide some insight.
> >
> >
> > Biederman, Steve wrote:
> >
> > >For a good, concise example and test case, go back to the problem I posted
> > >on 7/16, titled "tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this
> > >test case".
> > >
> > >That behavior is seen on a bare Windows machine with no Cygwin installed
> > >but for tar 1.13.25 and cygwin1.dll.
> > >
> > >When I installed a Cygwin build environment in order to debug the problem,
> > >the problem disappeared.  But its easily reproduced on a bare Windows
> > >machine.
> > >
> > >
> > >Biederman, Steve wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their
> > >>Windows machines.
> > >>These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare
> > >>Windows machines.
> > >>
> > >>I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they
> > >>could run
> > >>Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines
> > >>without Cygwin installed see different behavior than machines which have
> > >>it installed.  (Running tar
> > >>on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)
> > >>
> > >>What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows machine to
> > >>get
> > >>Cygwin tar to run reliably?
>
> This may not be apropos today ...
>
> Several years ago I was trying something similar, get a minimum,
> standalone amanda distribution.  The distributed gtar was not yet
> 1.13.25 so I compiled my own.  It needed another cygwin provided
> dll besides cygwin1.dll.  Sorry I don't recall which one, nor do
> I know if that requirement still exists.
>
> jl

Build gtar, then "cygcheck gtar.exe".  It relies on all the DLLs you see
in the output.
	Igor
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