Re: Problems with C++ compiler on 9.0_RC2

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 2020-02-10 12:46, Marc Baudoin wrote:
> Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> écrit :
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Marc Baudoin wrote:

> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 martin  wheel  12 Jan 31 13:19 ./9.0/usr/include/g++/bits/gthr-default.h@ -> gthr-posix.h
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 martin  wheel   0 Jan 31 13:19 ./updated/usr/include/g++/bits/gthr-default.h*
>
> Indeed, I have an empty (executable)
> /usr/include/g++/bits/gthr-default.h regular file.  Replacing it
> with a symbolic link to gthr-posix.h seems to work (at least your
> previous example compiles now).
>
> > Sounds like a bsdtar bug :-(  which also explains why it did not happen
> > for your beta updates.
>
> Then it would be nice to have it fixed before 9.0.
Is /usr/bin/tar bsdtar on 9.0?

Reason I'm asking is that I'm able to compile c++ quite happily in 
chroot environments created by un-tarring all the sets into the chroot. 
using tar zpxf <set-file>. So it could be a sysinst upgrade bug.

Mike