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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:57:27 +0200
To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: tar-1.12a's make install
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:17:07 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> mkdir /dev/env/DJDIR/info
> f:/djgpp/bin/mkdir: cannot make directory `/dev/env/DJDIR/info': File exists (EEXIST)
> make.exe[1]: *** [install-info-am] Error 1
> make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `f:/hackery/tar/gnu/tar-1.12a/doc'
> make.exe: *** [install-recursive] Error 1"
> 
> Suggestions are welcome.

How about "make -k ...."?

> A very recent libc per cvs is used (uncertain if it's relevant) and
> time stamp of tar112as.zip is 20000305, 02:26.

The bug is probably in Tar (or in mkinstalldirs).  However, the
changes for DJGPP support I sent two years(!) ago were put aside as a
result of maintainers' change and the fact that the new maintainer
started with an old version where my changes did not exist.
Therefore, I don't intend to port any new versions of Tar, or
otherwise work on it, until and unless my changes are first made part
of the official distribution.

Porting Tar once and then working with the previous maintainer on
incorporating the changes into the official sources, and on merging
them with MSVC patches, was painful enough.  Doing this once again
with very different sources from Tar 1.13.x is too much for me, sorry.