P4A : ValueError: name is too long

[Joey daniel darko]

Hi, finally i have been able to cross all the obstacles that prevented me from using p4a but after running for sometime, i finally get slapped with this error.. please what's the problem. thanks

[INFO]:    -> directory context /home/mcroni/.local/share/python-for-android/dists/unnamed_dist_2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/p4a", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('python-for-android==0.4', 'console_scripts', 'p4a')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_for_android-0.4-py2.7.egg/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 795, in main
    ToolchainCL()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_for_android-0.4-py2.7.egg/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 470, in __init__
    getattr(self, args.subparser_name.replace('-', '_'))(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_for_android-0.4-py2.7.egg/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 147, in wrapper_func
    func(self, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_for_android-0.4-py2.7.egg/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 653, in apk
    build_args = build.parse_args(args.unknown_args)
  File "/home/mcroni/.local/share/python-for-android/dists/unnamed_dist_2/build.py", line 491, in parse_args
    make_package(args)
  File "/home/mcroni/.local/share/python-for-android/dists/unnamed_dist_2/build.py", line 248, in make_package
    make_tar('assets/private.mp3', tar_dirs, args.ignore_path)
  File "/home/mcroni/.local/share/python-for-android/dists/unnamed_dist_2/build.py", line 197, in make_tar
    tf.add(fn, afn)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2016, in add
    self.addfile(tarinfo, f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2039, in addfile
    buf = tarinfo.tobuf(self.format, self.encoding, self.errors)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1000, in tobuf
    return self.create_ustar_header(info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1017, in create_ustar_header
    info["prefix"], info["name"] = self._posix_split_name(info["name"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1104, in _posix_split_name
    raise ValueError("name is too long")
ValueError: name is too long

[Alexander Taylor]

We've seen this happen in file paths that are extremely long before, but I don't know exactly what causes it. What is the path to your app dir?

[Joey daniel darko]

Thanks the path is home/mcroni/build_1
,thank you