From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#56222: Emacs 28.1 distribution tarball does not unpack on Solaris 10 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 16:24:16 +0300 Message-ID: <837d53a77j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2b514995-53a3-940e-1e06-2b35a29e4d5c@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14916"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 56222@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 15:25:11 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SGF-0003gf-6l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SGE-0004TY-85 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SG6-0004TN-L7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SG6-0002LN-Bd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SG6-0003N7-7L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:25:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 56222 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 56222-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B56222.165624986612910 (code B ref 56222); Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 56222) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jun 2022 13:24:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46944 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SFW-0003MA-FL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44048) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SFR-0003Lu-Dr for 56222@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:24:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SFM-0002I7-1D; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:24:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=Pmrw/k+4tIPCTJBq6215T4pqcvoRrOreOeIa/Tcx/6A=; b=IeAgiqIsT61Q48UpNQi2 gx9asr1iklJpRbAggUj+HZS+CaNmxcNv/R6o94qALgV5Io7mlpG0ZARNz5W0F5qn0n9kYDSpAM38H 4oijPgLXL3upY7dVwRxsPilbrHwCrd4eniaEPhwA160/rYtoWMuRFQBAgCuBkxBUkzypfGRFCnJa5 jfjJEdcAbSMV0VefKUzCmWoHVgNDHUSnfBWUux1ITSD1JWtOnttPkBAiwp1UAS40pmh6QU/E2EBAv 4ZYSaGovodcWnb9v6pKTdrEOHjw21xl3UGJkh3KvoD8SDM75rBFazOJ5UCJQnCco4uQE55V477Bid u9DEydSnjq1SYg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2504 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5SFL-0007Rj-Ge; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:24:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2b514995-53a3-940e-1e06-2b35a29e4d5c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:40:08 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:235328 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:40:08 -0500 > From: Paul Eggert > > The Emacs 28.1 distribution tarball does not unpack correctly on Solaris > 10 when using the system-supplied 'tar' program. This is a regression > from Emacs 27.2. I didn't pick this up when testing earlier, since I > have GNU 'tar' in my PATH (perhaps I shouldn't; oh well). The symptoms are: > >   $ gzip -d   tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to > regular file >   tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to > regular file >   ... > > The problem is that the Emacs 28.1 tarball (unlike 27.2) has file names > longer than 100 bytes. These file names do not fit within traditional > 'tar' format. By default, for these files GNU Tar uses a GNU-specific > @LongLink extension, designed long ago but not picked up by POSIX, that > Solaris 10 tar does not understand. > > A simple workaround is to tell GNU Tar to generate POSIX-standard > tarballs instead. I installed the attached patch to Emacs master to fix > this, and suggest that it be backported to the Emacs 28 branch if we're > planning to generate another Emacs 28 version. Thanks, I cherry-picked to the emacs-28 branch. (Yes, there will be at least Emacs 28.2.)