findutils 4.6.0 cannot be installed on PPC Mac OS X 10.5.8, Leopard, because of strange directory name confdir-14B---

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

The installation process ends with

Error: error deleting "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_sysutils_findutils/findutils/work/findutils-4.6.0/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---": file name too long
Error: Couldn't activate findutils 4.6.0_0: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_sysutils_findutils/findutils/work/findutils-4.6.0/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---/confdir-14B---: file name too long}}}

No main.log file is saved.

The reason is obvious from this ls output:

{{{
root 248 /\ l -t /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_sysutils_findutils/findutils/work/findutils-4.6.0/
total 9344
drwxr-xr-x  4 macports  admin      952  7 Feb 20:32 locate
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  admin      748  7 Feb 20:32 doc
drwxr-xr-x  4 macports  admin      374  7 Feb 20:31 xargs
drwxr-xr-x  4 macports  admin     1156  7 Feb 20:31 find
drwxr-xr-x  3 macports  admin     1564  7 Feb 20:29 lib
drwxr-xr-x  7 macports  admin    12308  7 Feb 20:29 tests
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin  2995810  7 Feb 20:22 config.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  admin     3298  7 Feb 20:21 po
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin   103836  7 Feb 20:21 config.h
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin       23  7 Feb 20:21 stamp-h1
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  admin      408  7 Feb 20:21 m4
drwxr-xr-x  4 macports  admin      238  7 Feb 20:21 gl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 macports  admin    99297  7 Feb 20:21 config.status
drwx------  3 macports  admin      102  7 Feb 20:17 confdir-14B---
drwx------  3 macports  admin      102  7 Feb 20:17 confdir3
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin     1962 28 Dez 22:33 tool-versions.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin    99810 28 Dez 22:33 config.h.in
-rwxr-xr-x  1 macports  admin  1382089 28 Dez 22:31 configure
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin     8271 28 Dez 22:15 configure.ac
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin    63296 22 Dez 18:32 maint.mk
-rw-r--r--  1 macports  admin       10 21 Aug  2011 stamp-h.in
}}}

The directory `confdir-14B---` has the same time stamp as the directory `confdir3`, so it could have been produced by the failing conftest about confdir3, or a bit later. The command `find /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_sysutils_findutils/findutils/work/findutils-4.6.0/confdir-14B--- -type d | wc -l` returns the number `57`, so presumingly this directory is 56 levels deep and the final resulting path name is 1024 or 1025 characters long.