On 18/09/15 18:19, Studevant, Glenn T (AS) wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded libunistring-0.9.5.tar.tar from your web-site and > attempted to extract it on our RHEL 5.1 platform. I got an error when I > attempted to do this. This is the text from the error: > > > > /bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive > > /bin/gtar: Skipping to next header > > /bin/gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > /bin/gtar: Read 5364 bytes from /media/Sep 18 > 2015/libunistring-0.9.5.tar.tar > > /bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > > > I was therefore unable to load libunistring which I need to compile guile.
I'm not sure where you downloaded from, or why your file has the double tar.tar extension. Please try: wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.5.tar.gz tar -xf libunistring-0.9.5.tar.gz Note also that 0.9.6 is available. thanks, Pádraig.
