symbolic links cannot be preserved by ant tar

[zyng]

Hi:

I just found that when using the ant task "tar" to create a tar file, the links can not be preserved -- this is different from GNU tar feature.

In another words, if the directory to be tarred containing:

libfoo.so --> libfoo.so.0
libfoo.so.0 --> libfoo.so.0.4
libfoo.so.0.4
(very common scenario in shared object library files in *nix OS)

By default(followsymlinks is true), when I tarred and untarred the created tar file, there will be 3 identical files with different names:

libfoo.so
libfoo.so.0
libfoo.so.0.4

This is considered a bug by Ant developers:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15244

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14320

I am wondering if there is a solution now, or I have to live with it.

Thank you very much.

 

[Andreas Leitgeb]

I just found that when using the ant task "tar" to create a tar file, the links can not be preserved -- this is different from GNU tar feature.

Maybe you can get ant to call (gnu-)tar directly, instead of using the
tar task?

Not an ant expert, myself, and only answering because I don't see any
other reply, yet.