[Mingw-msys] tar and symlinks

[John V. <ja...@gm...>]

Hi,

When tar unpacks the openssl 0.9.8-beta4 distribution, it spits out a
lot of warnings when it runs into symbolic links.  Adding
--dereference doesnt fix it; am I missing something ?

7-Zip and PowerArchiver both create 0 length files, WinZip ignores
them, and GNUWin32 tar says:
tar.exe: Cannot fork: Function not implemented

Cygwin creates shortcuts; will the short-cut be translated into a real
filename before being push into a gcc command ??

John

$ tar -xhzf openssl-0.9.8-beta4.tar.gz=20
tar: openssl-0.9.8-beta4/test/ssltest.c: Cannot create symlink to
`../ssl/ssltest.c': No such file or directory
tar: openssl-0.9.8-beta4/test/shatest.c: Cannot create symlink to
`../crypto/sha/shatest.c': No such file or directory
tar: openssl-0.9.8-beta4/test/sha512t.c: Cannot create symlink to
`../crypto/sha/sha512t.c': No such file or directory
tar: openssl-0.9.8-beta4/test/sha256t.c: Cannot create symlink to
`../crypto/sha/sha256t.c': No such file or directory
tar: openssl-0.9.8-beta4/test/sha1test.c: Cannot create symlink to
`../crypto/sha/sha1test.c': No such file or directory
.....