gnu tar vs generic tar for FOP dist

[Kelly Campbell <ca...@merlot.channelpoint.com>]

I just wanted to give a heads up to people using the tar.gz distribution
of FOP that generic tar may not be able to unpack future versions of the
distribution. Generic tar's which are shipped on OS's like Solaris and
MacOS X don't support long paths. Ant provides the following warning
during our dist build:

      [tar]
Entry: Fop-0.18.0-DEV/javadocs/org/apache/fop/fo/properties/GenericCondBorderWidth.Enums.Conditionality.html
longer than 100 characters.
      [tar] Resulting tar file can only be processed successfully by GNU
compatible tar commands

This means gnutar must be used instead. Most linuxes include gnutar, and
most sysadmins I know install it on systems which don't have it. MacOS X
also includes it, but under the name gnutar.

If this causes too much trouble, we can make ant write generic tar
compatible files, but some filenames will be truncated or the files will
be left out.


-Kelly
-- 
Kelly A. Campbell              Software Engineer
<ca...@merlotxml.org>           ChannelPoint, Inc.
<ca...@channelpoint.com>        Colorado Springs, Co.

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