Thanks Rupert, I installed GNU tar 1.20, everything unpacked and I have configured successfully. I'll attempt to install later. Thanks again Rob -----Original Message----- From: Rupert Wood [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 9:25 PM To: Ellis Robin (Bundaberg) Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: GCC-4.3.1 source from mirror - no configure file 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. ************************************************************************ The information in this email together with any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email message is prohibited, unless as a necessary part of Departmental business. If you have received this message in error, you are asked to inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your computer system network. ************************************************************************
