Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Oh, OK.  I didn't know that this was a restatement of that problem
(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00932.html>).  Did you try
running tar on the affected systems with strace?  Perhaps a comparison
of the output from a machine where it's failing and the same from one
that doesn't would provide some insight.

Larry


Biederman, Steve wrote:

> For a good, concise example and test case, go back to the problem I posted on 7/16, 
> titled "tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test case".
>
> That behavior is seen on a bare Windows machine with no Cygwin installed
> but for tar 1.13.25 and cygwin1.dll.  
>
> When I installed a Cygwin build environment in order to debug the problem,
> the problem disappeared.  But its easily reproduced on a bare Windows machine.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:54 PM
> To: Biederman, Steve
> Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
>
>
> Biederman, Steve wrote:
>
>
> > I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their Windows machines.
> > These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare Windows machines.
> >
> > I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they could run
> > Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines without Cygwin 
> > installed see different behavior than machines which have it installed.  (Running tar
> > on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)
> >
> > What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows machine to get
> > Cygwin tar to run reliably?
>
>
>
> Dunno.  Perhaps you need to provide some data on what's wrong with the
> archives made and some specifics on what you're using (cygcheck output
> perhaps?) and an example of the problem.


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