ghc's configure script set: TAR = /opt/csw/bin/gtar ZIP = zip
in mk/config.mk although I've got /usr/bin/tar, too (and earlier in my path). Cheers Christian Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:15 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just been informed that unpacking the binary (i386) solaris >> distribution using bunzip2 and tar: > > It may work better in future if you use a non-GNU tar to pack it up in > the first place. GNU tar uses a non-standard tar format by default. > Solaris tar would likely have more luck unpacking a POSIX/USTAR tar > format file. It's also possible to use gnu tar to make standard tar > format files, using --format ustar rather than gnu tar's default of > --format gnu. > > Duncan > (who now knows an unhealthy amount about tar file formats after writing > a Haskell package to read them) > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
