#13979: Don't use gtar to produce FreeBSD binary distribution -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: bgamari Type: task | Status: patch Priority: highest | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #13974 | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D3765 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by bgamari): Ahh, never mind. It has little to do with the tar file format. Rather, the files which failed in ticket:13974#comment:5 are all included multiple times in the bindist. For instance, {{{ $ tar -vtf ghc-8.3.20170720-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.xz ... -rwxr-xr-x 0 ben ben 54184 Jul 20 20:45 ghc-8.3.20170720/utils/hp2ps/dist-install/build/tmp/hp2ps hrwxr-xr-x 0 ben ben 0 Jul 20 20:45 ghc-8.3.20170720/utils/hp2ps/dist-install/build/tmp/hp2ps link to ghc-8.3.20170720/utils/hp2ps/dist-install/build/tmp/hp2ps }}} This is no doubt due to a build system bug. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13979#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler