xfce4-icon-theme problems

[Martti Kuparinen]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>>>> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=29027
>
> I've seen that problem on Debian/i386 (Linux 2.6) as well. It only happened 
> when I tried to run make dist on that box. I've never managed to figure out 
> whats wrong exactly (I didn't pay much attention to it either), but my guess 
> was a filename length limitation in Linux.

The host having problems was running this:

# tar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2

It seems like this GNU tar was unable to correctly extract the tarball,
using a new tar solved the problem:

# gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1

Martti