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List:       amavis-bugs
Subject:    Re: [AMaViS-bugs] complications with ./configure
From:       Lars Hecking <lhecking () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2000-12-05 13:28:10
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Piotr Kasztelowicz writes:
[...]
> checking if tar removes leading / from archive... no
> configure: error: your 'tar' does NOT remove leading / from pathnames!
> 
> I use Solaris 2.6.
> 
> Please answer on priva and help if possible

 This is not a bug in amavis!

 Solaris tar doesn't remove leading slashes from pathnames. Imagine
 someone emailed you an archive of /etc with all files truncated to
 zero, you run scanmails as root, and Solaris tar unpacks a bunch of
 empty files into /etc. Bummer.

 You're better off installing GNU tar. No matter whether it's in $PATH
 before or after /bin/tar, configure will use it if installed as gtar.

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