It appears that GPT looks for 'gtar' but not 'gnutar'.
On 7/9/10 2:53 PM, Ole Weidner wrote: > Oops, missed that post. Sorry. > > It says: > > ==================== > "The issue is that /usr/bin/tar on MacOSX 10.6 is BSD tar rather than GNU > tar (unlike MacOSX 10.5), and GPT requires GNU tar as documented at: > > http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/latest-stable/admin/install/#gtadmin-prereq-required > > A solution is to install GNU tar from <http://www.finkproject.org/> or > elsewhere, then (re-)install GPT." > ==================== > > What bothers me is that the issue only shows up with the latests 5.0.1 > release. I just double-checked and downloaded 5.0.0 and it builds (still > building) just fine on 10.6. This problem seems to be 5.0.1-specific. > > BTW: OS X 10.6 comes with GNU tar: /usr/bin/gnutar > > Cheers, > Ole > > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Jim Basney wrote: > >> http://lists.globus.org/pipermail/gt-user/2009-September/008482.html >> >> On 7/9/10 2:14 PM, Ole Weidner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can't build Globus 5.0.1 on OS X 1.6: >>> >>> macpro01:gt5.0.1-all-source-installer oweidner$ mkdir /tmp/globus/ >>> macpro01:gt5.0.1-all-source-installer oweidner$ export >>> GLOBUS_LOCATION=/tmp/globus >>> macpro01:gt5.0.1-all-source-installer oweidner$ ./configure >>> --prefix=$GLOBUS_LOCATION >>> checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin10.4.0 >>> configure: creating ./config.status >>> config.status: creating Makefile >>> macpro01:gt5.0.1-all-source-installer oweidner$ make gridftp >>> cd gpt && OBJECT_MODE=32 ./build_gpt >>> build_gpt ====> installing GPT into /tmp/globus >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/Compress-Zlib-1.21 >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/IO-Zlib-1.01 >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/makepatch-2.00a >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/Archive-Tar-0.22 >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/PodParser-1.18 >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/support/Digest-MD5-2.20 >>> build_gpt ====> building >>> /Users/oweidner/Projects/OS-X-Installers/Globus/5.0.1/gt5.0.1-all-source-installer/gpt/packaging_tools >>> /tmp/globus/sbin/gpt-build -srcdir=source-trees-thr/core/source >>> gcc32dbgpthr >>> /tmp/globus/etc/gpt/globus_core-src.tar.gz could not be untarred:32512 >>> Died at /tmp/globus/lib/perl/Grid/GPT/PkgMngmt/ExpandSource.pm line 42. >>> make: *** [globus_core-thr-compile] Error 127 >>> >>> Any ideas what's going wrong here? AFAIK the problem didn't show up in 5.0.0 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ole >
