ghc's configure script set: TAR = /opt/csw/bin/gtar ZIP = zip in mk/config.mk although I've got /usr/bin/tar, too (and earlier in my path). Cheers Christian Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:15 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
Hi,
I've just been informed that unpacking the binary (i386) solaris distribution using bunzip2 and tar:
It may work better in future if you use a non-GNU tar to pack it up in the first place. GNU tar uses a non-standard tar format by default. Solaris tar would likely have more luck unpacking a POSIX/USTAR tar format file. It's also possible to use gnu tar to make standard tar format files, using --format ustar rather than gnu tar's default of --format gnu.
Duncan (who now knows an unhealthy amount about tar file formats after writing a Haskell package to read them)