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Subject: Re: Cygwin test 3.5.0 tar symlinks error messages and failure status
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Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
> > Problem writing tar (with Cygwin default sys) symlinks before target
> > created under Cygwin 3.5.0 - error messages are issued and tar exits
> > with failure status!
> […]
> > The only likely culprit between 3.4.6 and that commit seems to be
> > commit 2023-04-18 fa84aa4dd2fb43eaf7fcdfb040aef854f2f19d01 Cygwin: fix
> > errno values set by readlinkat.
> >
> > Still seems to work as expected despite the error messages and failure status.
> >
> > Runs without any messages or failure under Cygwin stable 3.4.6.
>
> The interface mentioned above is known to be wonky on various systems.
> You might need to re-build tar in oder for it to detect any changed
> level of wonkiness and adapt accordingly.

On Cygwin 3.4.7, recompiling tar from the source package fixes this
problem; the resulting binary then seems to be fine on Cygwin 3.4.6 as
well.

Please could tar 1.34 be re-packaged?

All best,


David

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