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

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