Not sure if this is the same problem, but I know that the tar that ships
with Solaris has trouble when the archive contains long file/path names.
Using gnu-tar, we had no problems.
Hope this helps,
Justin
> From: "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:50:03 -0600
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Ant binary build file may be corrupted.
>
> I had the same problem also on sun....
> but the same .gz file unzips and untars fine on linux :
>
> tar -zxvf jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar.gz
>
> can't do that on our sun box. I'm thinking that gunzip is doing something
> funky to the tar file.
> what I did was to go ahead and gunzip and untar and then explicitly extract
> the missing files from the archive...(i believe it is the lib dir that
> doesn't untar successfully)
>
> ant seems to work fine after that.
>
> hope this helps,
> james
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Ziolkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:30 PM
> Subject: Ant binary build file may be corrupted.
>
>
>> To whom it may concern.
>>
>> Myself and a colleague both recently downloaded the ant1.3 build binary
> from the
>> jakarta ftp server.
>> The file was jakarta-ant-1.3-bin.tar.gz. This was downloaded to Sun
> machines
>> a server and a workstation) running Solaris 7. The file was unzipped
> using
>> gunzip then untarred using tar -xvf. The untarring process ended with a
>> "directory checksum" error. This error does not occur if the file
> contents are
>> viewed using the -tvf switches.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Robin
>>
>>
>>
>
