issue with setup and octave-forge new release (was: Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2)

[James R. Phillips]

--- Eric Blake  wrote:
 issue with /usr/share/info/dir
> 
> When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when
> unpacking octave-forge: "error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'".
> I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer
> version of tar than cygwin's current 1.13.25, using options that the older
> tar chokes on.  Hopefully, this will go away when I get tar 1.15.1 working
> (I'm still tracking down a textmode issue), but in the meantime, you may
> want to consider repackaging.

I am getting the same complaint from setup, but I don't know how it could be a
tar version issue.  I am using 1.13.25.  tar does report errors on unpacking,
but only if using the -v option, so I guess that is why I missed them.

Don't know at this point what the issue is because the build directory no
longer exists.  I will rebuild post-haste and investigate.

JRP