I don't think it's me, but thought I'd see what other eyes see...

Using Archive::Tar, if I create a tar file of a symlink with FOLLOW_SYMLINK = 1, the write fails. Here's the 1-line reproducer. Perl 5.12.4, fedora 15

# touch foo
# ln -s foo bar

# perl -MArchive::Tar -e'$Archive::Tar::FOLLOW_SYMLINK = 1; my $t = Ar
+chive::Tar->new; $t->add_files("bar"); $t->write( "baz.tgz", COMPRESS
+_GZIP );print $t->error(1); print $Archive::Tar::VERSION'
Could not write data for: bar at -e line 1
Could not write data for: bar at /usr/share/perl5/Archive/Tar.pm line 
+1293
        Archive::Tar::write('Archive::Tar=HASH(0x9dcf90)', 'baz.tgz', 
+9) 
called at -e line 1
1.78

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The same command adding "foo" instead of bar works. Hard to imagine something so simple being broken - but I can't see what I'm doing wrong!

Thanks for any help.

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In reply to Archive::Tar fails to dereference and save symlinks? by tlhackque

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