From: "Rupert Wood" <me@rupey.net>
To: "'Ellis Robin \(Bundaberg\)'" <Robin.Ellis@nrw.qld.gov.au>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: GCC-4.3.1 source from mirror - no configure file
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007101c8e27f$9c6c5b10$d5451130$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F226A05D0988A0448B7BD49C419359C14B1483@ENTERPRISE.lands.resnet.qg>
Robin Ellis wrote:
> Thanks Brian, you're spot on. I just downloaded the source from
> another site and this time bothered to check the output from 'tar
> -xvf', sure enough there is an error that I didn't notice before:
:
> tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular
On Solaris 8 at least you get this if you're using Solaris tar instead of GNU tar - I think some path names are too long.
I'd suggest trying GNU tar - if you're lucky this might already be installed as gtar. I think you can also extract it with Solaris's pax but I forget how.
Rup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 22:44 Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)
2008-07-09 23:12 ` Brian Dessent
2008-07-10 0:41 ` Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)
2008-07-10 11:33 ` Rupert Wood [this message]
2008-07-11 5:18 ` Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)
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