I wanted to extract a compiler's tarball on git bash on Windows 10:
$ tar xzf polyml-5.8.2.tar.gz
tar: polyml-5.8.2/compile: Cannot create symlink to ‘/usr/share/automake-1.16/compile’: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Searching on the error messages I have found some advice:
Ignore Symlinks when Extracting Tarball
But it says
-h (or --dereference) to dereference will only work upon creation
How do I dereference links when extracting from a tar file?
suggest to use mountavs, but git bash on Windows is a very minimal system, I hope to make it work without installing anything.
So, is there a way to make tar not trying to extract a symbolic link to /usr/share?
