Re: [Tack-devel] bad ack-5.6.tar.bz2

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Jonas Sundstr=F6m wrote:
[...]
> /bin/tar: ack-5.6/mach/sparc_solaris/libem/LIST:=20
> Could not link to `ack-5.6/mach/sparc/libem/LIST':=20
> No such file or directory
>=20
> /bin/tar: ack-5.6/mach/sparc_solaris/libem/libem_s.a:=20
> Could not link to `ack-5.6/mach/sparc/libem/libem_s.a':=20
> No such file or directory
>=20
> If these items are hardlinks, it fails due to BeOS not
> supporting them. We've only got symlinks.

Yup; it's trying to create hardlinks. You should be able to manually fix
things by creating the appropriate symlinks.

(I assume that the reason why it's using hardlinks is because the
authors mainly did development on Minix, which doesn't support
symlinks... yes, I agree with you that hardlinks are evil except in
specific circumstances.)

Alternatively, you could always try building the head of CVS --- it's
using a radically new build system that, er, may compile, and has never
been tested on BeOS...

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