On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:44:56PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Hi everyone, > > commit cc3d52e[1] has apparently broken 'make dist' for at least some > platforms: Fedora 20 is fine[2], but both Fedora 21 and rawhide[3][4] > are currently failing. My laptop is running Fedora 22 and can make > dist just fine, which is of course very confusing. > > The issue is caused by the following tar error: > > tar: libvirt-1.2.18/tests/nodeinfodata/linux-deconfigured-cpus/ \ > node/node0/cpu16/topology/core_siblings_list: \ > link name is too long; not dumped > > There seem to be basically two ways to solve the failure: > > 1. rename the test case, making it shorter; > > 2. bump tar format from ustar, which has limitations on the length > of file names, to posix/pax, which has no such limitations. > > I'm not a fan of the former option because short names are usually very > opaque, see tests/nodeinfodata/linux-test[0-8] for some perfect > examples. > > On the other hand, I'm not sure whether bumping the tar version would > affect portability in a significant way: the automake documentation[5] > reports that > > this format is very young and should probably be restricted to > packages that target only very modern platforms > > but the GNU tar documentation[6], while containing some warnings as > well, suggest that this format is going to become the default. > > Any suggestions on how to proceed? We've hit this many times before and always just shorten the file names in GIT to avoid it. Really we could do with adding a check for filename length to make check to avoid this again. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list