Building gcc 4.6.3 (and older) outside of source tree, under solaris

[Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Dennis Clarke wrote:

>>>
>>> And, in fact the file names in the source tree are wrong : they have a bad
>>> extension : .hp instead of .hpp
>>
>> Try using GNU tar to extract from the archives, this happens sometimes
>> with Solaris tar.
>
> better yet, use star: http://freecode.com/projects/star
>
> If you are on ZFS then star will ensure that the files are, in fact,
> actually written to the file system and flushed. No promise otherwise.

I was already using gtar. I'm updating it and will surely try star (I have zfs here).

I don't believe I'm the only one to fall with this problem.

Thanks for the hints.


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