William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Dr. David > Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> twisted-8.2.0 is messing up on my Solaris box, but it looks odd. The >> error message is saying there's no spkg-install script,setup.py or >> configure script. But there is. >> >> drkir...@kestrel:[~/sage/sage-4.1.alpha2/spkg/build/twisted-8.2.0] $ ls -l >> total 9 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 drkirkby other 1466 Jun 19 20:43 SPKG.txt >> -rw-r--r-- 1 drkirkby other 21 Jun 28 04:27 spkg-install >> drwxr-xr-x 5 drkirkby other 9 Jun 28 04:27 src >> >> When I looked at permissions of the spkg-install, I see it does not have >> execute permission, which I thought might be the issue. Then I realised >> it is only 9 bytes in length. It's a pretty useless shell script, >> consisting of only: > > Are you using GNU tar or Sun's tar? If you're using Sun's tar can > you try extract the spkg using GNU tar. Note that an spkg is really a > .tar.bz2 file. > > William
I just checked and the old version of twisted in sage-4.0.2 (twisted-8.1.0.p2.spkg) *will* extract properly with the Sun tar. The updated version of twisted (twisted-8.2.0.spkg), which I think first appeared in sage-4.1.alpha2 will *not* extract with the Sun tar. If I first decompress it with bzip2, then extract it with Sun's tar, I get this error: x twisted-8.2.0/src/doc/core/examples/threadedselect/Cocoa/SimpleWebClient/English.lproj, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file x ././@LongLink, 101 bytes, 1 tape blocks x twisted-8.2.0/src/doc/core/examples/threadedselect/Cocoa/SimpleWebClient/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file x ././@LongLink, 109 bytes, 1 tape blocks x twisted-8.2.0/src/doc/core/examples/threadedselect/Cocoa/SimpleWebClient/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks tar: directory checksum error Does it really need this '@LongLink' stuff? If not, I'd propose it was recreated in a way that would work with either version of tar. It would be unfortunate to force a requirement to use GNU tar, if twisted could be created in a way that does not force that requirement. Thinking about it more, I think that my messing with paths had no effect on this. There is no version of GNU tar called 'tar' shipped with Solaris, though it is available as 'gtar' in /usr/sfw/bin. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
