From 3a86e04e4c7947ea045b849d081502b772182128 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Levine Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:16:29 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about cpio failing to unpack an nmh tarball. --- INSTALL | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3c48294..8d317e0 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. docs/README.developers, since there is other developer-friendly advice there as well.) + If you have obtained nmh in the form of a tar archive and are + trying to unpack it with cpio: due to an apparent bug in cpio, it + might fail with "Malformed number" error messages. Try another + tool to unpack, such as tar or pax. + 1) From the top-level source directory, run the command ./configure [options] -- 1.7.10.4