Re: BUG #4068: Failed to compile 8.3.1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Ronald Kuczek <kuczek(at)kuczek(dot)pl>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4068: Failed to compile 8.3.1
Date: 2008-03-27 20:48:38
Message-ID: 1698.1206650918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> What we haven't quite figured out is why the file wasn't present on the
> tarball he downloaded. Is it possible that a borked tarball was
> uploaded somewhere?

I seem to recall we found that some tar versions have a limit on total
pathname length? The tarball was actually OK but it got extracted
incorrectly. However the OP seems to be running a reasonably current
Linux so it's hard to believe he's got that problem.

regards, tom lane

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