Ah, yes, that's it. Thanks :) -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume 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?

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