Hello Monks,

Please help me out here. I am struggling with creating a tar ball containing the traversed tree of files, keeing their relative pathnames in tact.

It was a piece of cake with Archive::Zip using code like the following: 

my $obj = Archive::Zip->new();   # new instance
$obj->addTree( "$build_home/.", 'myapp' );
$zip_file="$build_dest/ama_".$myapp_version."_win32.zip";
unlink $zip_file;
$obj->writeToFileNamed($zip_file);

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With Archive::Tar I am not able to save the path at all. Please do pardon my ignorence but Archive::TarGzip is really not very well documented. My only option to create a tar.gz file is to use the tar utility from command line. Being on Windows platform does not make that possible.

Can you please give me some pointers. I would greatly appreciate the help.

Ash

In reply to Question on Archive::Tar vs Archive::TarGzip by jujiro_eb

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