[Mono-devel-list] make distcheck problems

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

"IT2003_1: Morenz, Tino" <TinoMorenz at ba-glauchau.de> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to this list so as short introduction: I am currently working on the port of mono to QNX. 
> I try to get make distcheck work on the QNX box.
> But 'make distcheck'seem to stops with gzip problem (I can not figure out the exact error however).
>
> Here is the output:
>
> *****************************************************************************************
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/smee/src/mono-1.1.8.1'
> find mono-1.1.8.1 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \
>   ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
>   ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
>   ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh /home/smee/src/mono-1.1.8.1/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \
> || chmod -R a+r mono-1.1.8.1
> tardir=mono-1.1.8.1 && false | GZIP=--best gzip -c >mono-1.1.8.1.tar.gz

This is the reason.  The 'false' above should be something like:

  tar cf - $tardir

Looks like the 'tar' program installed on your system is not a GNU tar
that supports the 'ustar' format.

- Hari