[CMake] cmake -E chdir on vista and xp

[David Cole]

Might it be a directory permissions issue?
"The system cannot find the file specified" might be telling you that untar
cannot create the top level directory found in the tar file... Was the
directory created by an admin, but you're running as a non-admin...?


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether I've found a bug... If I execute the command
>
> cmake -E chdir data tar xvf ../../bla.tgz
>
> on XP, it works, but on Vista I get
>
> c:\WORK\HyvesDesktop\trunk\build>cmake -E chdir data tar xfz
> ../../data/static_bundle.tgz
> The system cannot find the file specified
>
> Even though that file does exist, and if I try the cmake -e tar command
> separately, it also works.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Boudewijn
>
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