You should use GNU tar, the one that comes with Solaris has some
incompatibilities with the GNU version... (And don't ask me why :)
Pier
Dave Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Running Solaris 7, I downloaded the latest binary release of
> Ant (jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar.gz).
>
> My copy of gunzip complained about the .gz extension, so
> I renamed it to jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar.Z; I was successful.
>
> As I often do, I then ran the 'tar tvf jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar'
> command to check the contents of the archive; this too
> was succesful.
>
> But when I ran 'tar xvf jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar' it ran partway
> and choked like this:
>
> ...output looks normal up to here ...
> x
> jakarta-ant-1.3/docs/api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/depend/Class
> FileUtils.html, 10452 bytes, 21 tape blocks
> tar: directory checksum error
>
> On further investigation, the 'tar tvf' command informs me that
> the file it chokes on is:
>
> ././@LongLink
>
> These files intersperse all the .html files in the /constantpool
> directory.
>
> I unpacked the whole thing on my NT box, excised
> this directory, and tarred it up again (using Cygwin).
>
> When I moved this new version of the tarball onto Solaris,
> it unpacked just fine.
>
> My guess is that Solaris 7's version of tar is averse the the long
> (> 80 character) file name? Anybody heard about this problem
> before? I don't particularly care about the directory of docs, but
> I want to convince the people at my office to use Ant, and if it is
> this much of a pain to install on Solaris, I am going to have a
> hard time.
>
> Could you please reply to my e-mail address, as I am not an
> official member of the User's list?
>
>
>
Pier
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