GCC-4.3.1 source from mirror - no configure file

Rupert Wood me@rupey.net
Thu Jul 10 11:33:00 GMT 2008


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.




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