Re: [Module::Build] Help: Module::Build V 0.21 under WinXP

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 11/6/2003 8:30 PM, Ron Savage wrote:

> Hmmm. Good guess but ... I'm using both WinZip and GNU gzip/tar for 
> DOS. See:
> http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/GNU-Utils.html
> The GNU files I have are datestamped 1994 but it's only recently that 
> they seem to be struggling. And all problems are only in this 
> Archive::* context. When run by themselves (tar, gzip) everything is 
> fine. I'd better upgrade Compress::ZLib now too.
> 
> Anyway, WinZip and GNU agree that the files have no paths, so if you 
> can see paths and I can't there is definitely a problem and it's 
> definitely somewhere!
> 

I've traced through M::B and A::Tar; the path information is definately 
being written to the tar file, but there must be some disagreement 
between these programs on the tar file spec. What happens if you run:

ptar xvzf file.tar.gz

Randy.