Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:50:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
cc: DJGPP List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Unable to recompile TAR
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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, taupin wrote:

> I got on some simtels the tar112*.zip files.
> 
> Unfortunately, the tar.exe found DOES NOT expand to long file names
> on Win95, not does it recongnise input tars with a long name.

I can only guess that you got an old binary.  The one in
v2gnu/tar112b.zip on SimTel.NET supports long file names, and I'm
using it on Windows 95 for several months now (it was released in
November 1997).

> Therefore, I tried to recompile tar with V2. Unfortunately "make"
> complains that it cannot find target rule for configure.in...
> 
> ===> Can somebody provide me with a valid makefile of TAR for DJ
> (there are makefile.dj2 in other releases such as gzip)?

You are jumping to conclusions too quickly.  First, I think you
shouldn't need to rebuild Tar from sources, since the pre-compiled
binary already supports LFN.  And second, should you need to rebuild,
read the file README.dos in the tar112s.zip archive which includes
detailed instructions about rebuilding Tar with DJGPP tools.