Re: [FYI] How I compile on SunOS 5.7 with the SUNWspro compiler and ksh

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:47:39PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

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Hmm. I thought I had t5000 working on Solaris 5.7 a few months ago.
Unfortunately, the Solaris box I test on is down at the moment, so I
can't take a closer look. What is the problem?

Probably:
$ gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12

Ah, I found out the difference: my box is actually Solaris 5.8. The gtar
version there is 1.13 (which is also the version that ships with Solaris
5.9).

$ gtar xf - < ../b.tar
/apps/bin/gtar: Unknown file type 'g' for pax_global_header, extracted as normal file
/apps/bin/gtar: : Could not create directory: No such file or directory
/apps/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I get the pax header warning, but nothing else. Judging from your find
results:

./a/long_path_to_a_file
./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file
./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file
./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file

There should be another directory that is one level deeper, with
"file_with_long_path" in it...

./file_with_long_path

which seems to have been extracted in the root instead!

So perhaps you are hitting some length limitation in gtar.

-Peff