Re: building gcc-4.2.0

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Bill McEnaney wrote:
> David, thank you.  I do use GNU tar habitually because I sometimes get
> checksum errors when I run Solaris 8's tar.
>   

But is it GNU tar 1.14 or later?

The reason I ask, is that I had this identical problem using busybox 
tar.  Files with path names longer than some limit are not extracted, 
and you get the behavior you are seeing.

David Daney

> Bill
>
>   
> > Bill McEnaney wrote:
> >     
> > > Here are the error messages I get when I try to build gcc-4.2.0.  I
> > > don't know whether they're about Java, because I can't find the
> > > documents on the www that told me they were about it.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> /usr/src/gc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/pb_ds/detail/bin_search_tree_/bin_search_tree_.hpp:473:81:
>   
> > > error:
> > > ext/pb_ds/detail/bin_search_tree_/constructors_destructor_fn_imps.hpp:
> > > No such file or directory
> > >       
> > Looks like you were not using GNU tar to unpack the sources.
> >
> > That should be a documented requirement.
> >
> > David Daney
> >
> >
> >     
>
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