This is indeed the problem. You need to use a gnu-compatible version of tar. -- Stéphane Bailliez Software Engineer, Paris - France iMediation - http://www.imediation.com Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my company. > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Callison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant binary build file may be corrupted. > > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > >
