Limitation in path/filename with tar extraction?

[Craig Smith_13]

Hi all,

I downloaded Trolltech's Qt4.10 cross-platform development tool and extracted the .tar.gz with gzip then tar. It appears when extracting from the tar (xvf), there is a limitation in character length of path + filename. When doing a tar tvf, the filenames look fine and I can rename the file(s) to their original name.

To get around this, I extracted it with winzip on a PC and then ftped everything over the top of the original hp extraction.

Is there a patch that is available to resolve this?

HP-UX B.11.11
C3000


Thanks.

[Peter Godron]

Craig,
what error do you get if you try to extract with tar?

I always thought path length was 256, but I have never had a longer path name, so never tested it.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Craig,

Yes, its an OS limit. Anything over 256 will make the untar cough up fur balls.

You may be able to repackage the tar with gnu tar.

I like your workaround. It works doesn't it?

Sounds like you are done.

SEP

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

255 char is OS limit, If you want to patch your tar, PHCO_28992 is available. I suspect you have this patch on your system .. It gives support for 8GB files.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHCO_28992&context=hpux:800:11:11

-Arun

[Craig Smith_13]

Thanks all,

That's what I thought also, but the path length is only around 78. I'm not receiving any errors, however when I tried compiling the program(s), it couldn't find the files. Here is an example of one of the paths, along with the filenames:

/qt/qt-x11-commercial-src-4.1.0/tools/designer/src/components/signalsloteditor

signalsloteditor_instanc
should be: signalsloteditor_instance.cpp


signalsloteditor_instanc
should be: signalsloteditor_instance.cpp


Yes I get it to compile by copying the extracted files over from a PC, but it seemed weird that the filenames are getting cropped during the the un-taring process.

Craig.