dleslie 01/02/15 09:40:01
Modified: c/xdocs/sources/xalan faq.xml
Log:
Cleaned up entry from xerces about Solaris tar problems.
Revision Changes Path
1.14 +4 -10 xml-xalan/c/xdocs/sources/xalan/faq.xml
Index: faq.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-xalan/c/xdocs/sources/xalan/faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14
--- faq.xml 2001/02/15 16:45:09 1.13
+++ faq.xml 2001/02/15 17:39:58 1.14
@@ -103,18 +103,12 @@
<p>For more details see: <link idref="usagepatterns" anchor="icu">Using the
International Components for Unicode (ICU)</link>.<anchor
name="gnutar"/></p></a>
</faq>
- <faq title="I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. What's the
problem?">
+ <faq title="A tar checksum error on Solaris.">
<q>I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. What's the
problem?</q>
<a>
- <p>The problem is caused by a limitation in the original tar spec,
which
- prevented it from archiving files with long pathnames.
Unfortunately,
- various current versions of tar use different extensions for
eliminating
- this restriction which are incompatible with each other (or they
do not
- remove the restriction at all). Rather than altering the
pathnames for
- the xerces-c package, which would make them compatible with the
original
- tar spec but make it more difficult to know what was where, it
was
- decided to use GNU tar (gtar), which handles arbitrarily long
pathnames
- and is freely available on every platform on which xerces-c is
+ <p>The Solaris tar utility you are using does not properly handle
files with long pathnames.
+ You must use GNU tar (gtar), which handles arbitrarily long
pathnames
+ and is freely available on every platform on which &xslt4c; is
supported. If you don't already have GNU tar installed on your
system,
you can obtain it from the Free Software Foundation
<jump href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html";>
