From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Jon Mountjoy <mountjoy@netcomuk.co.uk>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000906164351.27048.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> (raw)
--- Jon Mountjoy <mountjoy@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have read all docs and couldn't solve my problem. In a make file I have:
> cd foo && tar blah blah | tar -C j:/foobar
>
> Now I run the make file from the l: drive (so l:/foo exists).
>
> The problem is that when the tar on the right gets run, it tries to place
> the files in the directory:
> /cygdrive/l/foo/j:/foobar
> which of course isn't a valid directory.
>
As I see it, tar is assuming the j:/foobar is a relative path since the string
doesn't begin with /. This causes the prefix /cygdrive/l/foo to be added to
make the path absolute.
If you:
mkdir /j
mount -b j:/ /j
tar -C /j/foobar
then tar will see the string beginning with / and not make the false assumption
that the path isn't absolute.
The other option is to modify tar and submit the patches to
cygwin-apps@soures.redhat.com for consideration.
Cheers,
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