CMake 2.4.7-1 ready

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman@kitware.com
Tue Jul 31 01:18:00 GMT 2007


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>   
>> So, that explains why the tar file works, it is just not a gnu tar file.
>> Something must have changed in my code because the 2.4.6 version
>> has the gnu style header and the 2.4.7 version has the other header.
>> I will try and figure out what changed and create a new release.
>>     
>
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>   
>> OK, I have figured out what happened.  CMake 2.4.7-1 was the first release
>> of cmake done with cpack for cygwin.  It was not generating gnu style
>> tar files.
>> I have changed that, so it should work with setup now.
>>     
>
> I've also updated setup to accept the tar magic of just "ustar\0", so
> those cpack tar files should now work (I tested with the cmake package
> and it extracted OK.)  And if it happens again the user should get a
> dialog about invalid tar format instead of it silently just doing
> nothing.
>
> Of course this won't take effect until the next setup release (unless
> you use a snapshot) so bumping the cmake packages is still a good idea.
>
> ( http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.577.exe )
>   
Sounds good, thanks again for the help.  I never would have figured this 
out, and it sounds like
we both learned something about tar magic...

-Bill



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