[CMake] CPack issue with long path names being misplaced in TGZ file

[David Cole]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/27 Marcus Bartholomeu <cmake at tecativa.com.br>:
>> I'm VERY sorry to bug you guys!
>>
>> I just realized that this is an issue with the midnight commander. It is not
>> reading inside tarballs correctly. But CPack is creating the tarball
>> correctly.
>>
>> Sorry again,
>
> Don't be, those bugs that are solving themselves after some time are
> my favourite ones :-]
>

They are my favorite, too!

Be aware, though, that Windows does have a 250-something character
limitation on full paths, and if you have very long paths to the files
in your project, you will eventually run into problems due to that
limit.


HTH,
David


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