Re: Damaged tar distribution

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Hi,

this is due to long entries in the tarball that the Solaris tar cannot
deal with - un-tar with -i (future releases of ghc will avoid this
problem).

--Sigbjorn

Frank Christoph writes:
>   The sparc-sun-solaris2 distribution for GHC 2.02
> 
> ghc-2.02-sparc-sun-solaris2.tar
> 
> appears to be damaged.  Whenever I untar it I get a checksum error in the
> middle.
>