[CMake] Bug 13251 - failure extracting symbolic links from tarball on Windows

Kevin Burge kevin.burge at systemware.com
Fri Dec 7 11:19:19 EST 2012


Already done.  It's the only way I can build.  Of course, this means
maintaining two sets of settings for the ExternalProject: one filename/md5sum
for Unix, and one for Windows.

Thanks for the suggestion.

At Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:16:35 -0500,
David Cole wrote:
> 
> Maybe as a workaround for now, you could construct the tarball you want
> manually... one that avoids these errors until this is fixed.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Kevin Burge <kevin.burge at systemware.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm running into this problem with building an ExternalProject via a
> > tarball:
> >
> > CMake Error: Problem with archive_write_header(): Can't create '\'
> >
> > I vote for just writing the original file, so at least the build can
> > continue.  2.8.10.2 completely stops the build now upon this error.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
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