Hi,
 
I had installed gnu tar on my machine. 
 
But I dont understand why the gnu tar would affect the
 
make install prefix=/usr/local/dist/usr/local exec_prefix=/usr/local/dist/usr/local
command ?

When I run this, the files are not written in the dist/usr  directory...
 
 
On 3/22/06, Bruce Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you have /usr/local/bin/tar installed?  Did you set your PATH correctly?
Sun's tar is busted.

>on Solaris 8, I have tried to follow the instructions in the Readme.Solaris
to make a tar file...

>make install prefix=/usr/local/dist/usr/local
exec_prefix=/usr/local/dist/usr/local

>However many files are missing.  (no sbin sub-directory is created for
example)

>doing a make install without options seems to work fine.  Any ideas ??


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