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Re: problem with long filenames in cygwin packages in setup.exe
- To: ganong at darwin dot UCSC dot EDU
- Subject: Re: problem with long filenames in cygwin packages in setup.exe
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:01:22 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200102270215.SAA10254@darwin.UCSC.EDU>
> and setup/mkdir.cc. I know since 100 characters is the limit of
> old fashioned filenames in tar (pre-gnu long filenames) i am guessing
> there is something wrong with setup's tar functions.
Yeah, setup has its own tar. I might have put in long path support,
I might not have.
> i tried to build the winsup from cvs to see i could fix this myself
> but the setup.exe that i built crashes just after putting up a dialog
> box that begins with "downloading".
Try building from yesterday's CVS.
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