[Rd] R 1.2 build
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
04 Oct 2000 17:22:48 +0200
Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
> I've been trying to build a bundle with the R-devel snapshot from
> yesterday. (Yes I know it is unstable and just tell me if I shouldn't be
> trying to do this yet.)
On the contrary, this kind of info is very useful.
> It is failing with the message
> tar : /dev/rmt/0 : Permission denied
>
> It happens after "removing junk files" and just after the message
> "building dse_2000.9-1.tar.gz"
>
> It looks to be coming from the line in the build script
> system("tar ....
> but I don't read perl very well.
>
> (Using Solaris.)
I think the problem is that older versions of tar wants un-hyphened
options i.e.
tar chXf $exclude $startdir/$filename $pkgname
rather than
tar -c -h -X $exclude -f $startdir/$filename $pkgname
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