On 23 Mar 2009, at 16:31, Josh Carter wrote: > Hi Chris, > >> This may be a complete red herring, but if you got >> this Sun Studio >> from a tarball did you untar with GNU tar, or normal >> tar? (And which >> tar created the tarball?) > > I can't tell for sure, it seems impossible to get a version out of > tar. It notably does not support the -z option so I'm guessing it's > not gnu tar. This is SXCE b106 and, as best I can tell, it's > "normal" tar. I did a fresh unpack of the tools and still no acomp > in the bin directory.
It sounds like the "normal" tar to me as well. I think you can spot GNU tar from the posix_header.magic field in the tarfile, but if you get different results by unpacking with GNU tar that's probably a more reliable indication that GNU tar's been accidentally used. Cheers, Chris
