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Bug 4248

Summary: Symbolic link in the repository causes un-tar error when downloading archive from HG
Product: SDL Reporter: Vitaly Novichkov <admin>
Component: buildAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows (All)   

Description Vitaly Novichkov 2018-09-03 20:04:30 UTC 
I have added SDL2 as "ExternalProject" as the URL to tar.bz2 archive.

Recently, I have got the report where this symbolic link causes a weird error when untaring Mercurial made archive on Windows through CMake installed into the MSys2 environment:

https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/26a817fe1b07/android-project-ant/AndroidManifest.xml

The discussion and logs are here:
https://github.com/WohlSoft/SDL-Mixer-X/issues/21
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-12-02 07:56:43 UTC 
This is a bug in CMake as far as I can tell. I'm not super-thrilled there are symlinks in our Mercurial repository, but we generated a correct tarball and an unrelated project failed to unpack it correctly. There isn't much we can do there.

--ryan.