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.
