problem with source 5.03

[Hal Daume III]

Ah, yes, that's it.  Thanks :)

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Hal Daume III

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) wrote:

> 
> | There seems to be a problem with the source tar.bz2 
> | distribution of the
> | 5.03 snapshot.  The web page claims it's 5.3M, but the actualy file is
> | only 4117517 bytes and doesn't untar properly:
> | 
> | x ghc-5.03.20020204/ghc/InstallShield/Setup Files/Compressed Files, 0
> | bytes, 0 tape blocks
> | x ghc-5.03.20020204/ghc/InstallShield/Setup Files/Compressed
> | Files/Language Independent, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
> | tar: directory checksum error
> | 
> | I was able to grab a CVS image, but someone should probably fix this.
> 
> The web page is wrong.  The file is OK.  
> 
> haskell:~/website/dist/5.03.20020204$ ls -l
> ghc-5.03.20020204-src.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-r--    1 sewardj  sewardj   4117517 Feb  5 09:17
> ghc-5.03.20020204-src.tar.bz2
> haskell:~/website/dist/5.03.20020204$ bzip2 -tv
> ghc-5.03.20020204-src.tar.bz2
>   ghc-5.03.20020204-src.tar.bz2: ok
> 
> and I guess you are untarring it on solaris, using the solaris tar?
> If so try GNU tar?
> 
> J
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