On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 17:12:14 (+0200) David Kastrup writes: >Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>... >> However, I still get this: >> >> install -d -m755 '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/' > ^^^ >> (cd blt && tar cf - .) | \ >> (cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/' && tar xf -) > ^^^ >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> >> So, I did a make -k and it worked ok, aside from this error. >> >> I copied this line: >> >> (cd blt && tar cf - .) | \ >> (cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/' && tar xf -) > ^^^ >> into a file, chmod +x'd that file, and cd'd into templates and ran >> the script. I got the same error. I then tried running it by >> hand from the command line: >> >> % cd templates >> % (cd blt && tar cf - .) | (cd /opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates >> ^^^ >> && tar xf -) >> >> and it worked fine. > >Not sure whether this is the problem: either cd does not understasnd >the double slashes, or your shell used for scripts has modified cd to >output some stuff when it is working (people sometimes imprudently >make shell functions or aliases for this). > >Try writing something like > >type cd > >in a script file and see what output you get. % echo 'type cd' > foo % chmod +x foo % ./foo cd is a shell builtin % bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. I also tried using the double-slash on the command line. It worked fine. I tried a single slash from the script and it did not work. % cd templates % cat foo set -x type tar type cd (cd blt && tar cf - .) | (cd /opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates && tar xf -) % ./foo ++ type tar tar is /bin/tar ++ type cd cd is a shell builtin ++ cd blt ++ tar cf - . ++ cd /opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates ++ tar xf - tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
