On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:
> 
> > % tar zxf l ../../../distfiles/mysql-3.22.22.tar.gz
>            ^^^
> 
> Oops. Please ignore the spurious 'l' which slipped in. The command I used
> was really "tar zxf ../../../distfiles/mysql-3.22.22.tar.gz".

Oh, sure.  It was obviously a typo (unless 'tar' has changed significantly
in the recent past).  The make is now proceeding normally (so far). 
Thanks for your help. 


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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> I've run into some troublesome tar archives, too. I saw
> "EXTRACT_USING_PAX= yes" in /pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example, and figure
> it must be there for a reason. After setting that in /etc/mk.conf,
> no problem.

I'll take a look at the /pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example suggestion later.
Thanks.

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