From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>, "Rouviere, Stephane" <stephane.rouviere@intel.com>
Cc: "'Johan Vermeire WX21 54189'" <Johan.Vermeire@alcatel.be>, sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: Source Navigator 4.5.1 -> Configure problem -> Unpacking the  tar  file gives a checksum error
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:41:00 -0000
Message-id: <4.2.0.58.20000828114226.00d37d40@pop.cygnus.com>
References: <D3DFF77F2F31D211AC3F00A0C9962CDC0360FDDB@irsmsx31.ir.intel.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008281201520.6706-100000@moshpit.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00329.html

At 12:03 PM 8/28/00 +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
>    I had the same problem with the tar: directory checksum error. It
>    seams to be a Sun tar problem. I took a gnu version of tar, recompiled
>    it under SunOS and then untar SN451.tar with it and it works. The
>    checksum error desappear.
>
>The S-N distribution archives should not require GNU tar to unpack them.
>This is obviously a really confusing point for newcomers.  There are
>compatibility options for GNU tar, mentioned in the Automake documentation
>(and used by `make dist').
>
>Ben

This means I now have to pack the binaries on my Solaris box and use 
/bin/tar instead of using the tar that ships with Red Hat 6.0? What a pain!


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