binutils-2.14/etc directory not in binutils-2.14 tarball?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:33:56PM +0100, Lourens Veen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried unpacking binutils-2.14.tar.bz2, and tar gave me a 
> whole bunch of error messages that looked like
> 
> tar: binutils-2.14/etc/Makefile.in: Could not create file: No such 
> file or directory
> 
> I found it that the binutils-2.14/etc directory is not in the 
> archive. Just to be sure I also downloaded binutils-2.14.tar.gz, 
> and it had the same problem. The md5 sums of the files I downloaded 
> are:
> 
> 2da8def15d28af3ec6af0982709ae90a  binutils-2.14.tar.bz2
> ba665d0ddcc88313384b79e293ecbbab  binutils-2.14.tar.gz
> 
> Using GNU tar 1.13, gzip 1.2.4 and bzip2 1.0.1 (rather old I know, 
> I'm building an LFS system to replace my ancient Slackware install)
> 
> Is tar supposed to create the directory automagically? At any rate, 
> even if it does, it seems strange that it is not included in the 
> tarball. Or is this intended for some reason?
> 
> I also searched the archives of this list and binutils-bugs, but 
> couldn't find anything. Please CC replies to me as I'm not 
> subscribed.

It appears that the version of GNU tar I use, and have used for a
number of years, does not include directories when tarballs are built
using -T on a list of the files.  I've never met a version of tar that
complained when unpacking such a tarball, but it does seem worth
fixing.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer