On Jun 21, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 21, 2001, Lance Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > The tar version is 1.13 (tar --version), from sunfreeware.com.
>>
>> 1.13 is broken. That's one of the symptoms.
>>
>> > I tried to compile 1.13.19 from the sources, but it would always hang up
>> > at a certain point (I determined where it would fail, but not why).
>>
>> Is this on Solaris/x86 or Solaris/sparc? Which compiler? Which linker?
> Solaris sparc. gcc 2.8.1 (also from sunfreeware.com), ld 2.9.1
Check the GNU tar 1.13.19 release notes. I believe somewhere it says
GCC 2.8.1 won't compile it properly.
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