From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: installation, and tar problems Date: 2 Jul 1992 01:34:24 GMT
In article <709989857.14081@minster.york.ac.uk> martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
> However yesterday I installed gcc2.2.2 (and finally got it working) but had
>no end of trouble, not caused by gcc, but caused by tar core-dumping on many
>of the gcc tar files!!! (This is the version of tar on the root disk for 0.96a,
>but the same tar binary is also on several archive servers).
Unless you know something I don't, there is (and won't be) any such
think as the 0.96a root disk. There is a 0.95a root disk, and the tar
binaries that are kept on the various archive sites are *not* the same
as the one on the root disk. They work, the one on the root disk does
not.
> So my question is, how did anyone else install gcc, or anything else when
>it comes to that, when tar is so flaky?
tar isn't flaky. I haven't had any problems with tar. Those who have
properly replaced the one from the 0.95a root disk have not, either.
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