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- From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: AIX 3.1.5 & GNU Tar 1.11
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 18:40:47 -0600
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- I have been trying to compile GNU tar 1.11 under IBM RS/6000 AIX
- 3.1.5 and have run into problems trying to extract tar files. GNU tar
- reports that it is unable to change ownership (if root) and is unable
- to set time/date and permissions on files after about five or six are
- extracted, then after the error messages, tar spits out the file it would
- be extracting to stdout. Needless to say, this is not the correct behavior.
- The sys_errlist message given with the errors printed by GNU tar says that
- the filename/path is not valid, yet my testing has indicated consistently
- that the file is there at the time the system libary calls are made to
- make the changes resulting in the aforementioned errors. This happens with
- bsdcc, normal cc, and gcc 2.3.1. Configuration is straight from the supplied
- configure script plus some modification of getdate.y to force it to include
- <time.h>, <sys/time.h>, and <sys/timeb.h> because AIX 3.1.5 is really wierd.
- If anyone has successfully built GNU tar 1.11 under AIX 3.1.5, could they
- please send me the necessary diffs and/or a binary for it?
-
- -Craig
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