William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Dr. David > Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> twisted-8.2.0 is messing up on my Solaris box, but it looks odd. The >> error message is saying there's no spkg-install script,setup.py or >> configure script. But there is. >> >> drkir...@kestrel:[~/sage/sage-4.1.alpha2/spkg/build/twisted-8.2.0] $ ls -l >> total 9 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 drkirkby other 1466 Jun 19 20:43 SPKG.txt >> -rw-r--r-- 1 drkirkby other 21 Jun 28 04:27 spkg-install >> drwxr-xr-x 5 drkirkby other 9 Jun 28 04:27 src >> >> When I looked at permissions of the spkg-install, I see it does not have >> execute permission, which I thought might be the issue. Then I realised >> it is only 9 bytes in length. It's a pretty useless shell script, >> consisting of only: > > Are you using GNU tar or Sun's tar? If you're using Sun's tar can > you try extract the spkg using GNU tar. Note that an spkg is really a > .tar.bz2 file. > > William
You have hit it there, I've probably been messing around with paths, in so far unsuccessful attempts to build a gcc which uses the Sun linker on t2. So yes the Sun version got picked up in this case. It would I guess be worth testing if the version of tar is the GNU one or not - if it is really necessary to have the GNU one. It's also odd why the Sun tar can't extract the file. Is the tar file created in a way that other tar's can't extract it? Perhaps it's that 'LongLink' in the tar file. Not sure exactly what that is. twisted-8.2.0/src/doc/core/examples/threadedselect/Cocoa/SimpleWebClient/English.lproj, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks x ././@LongLink, 101 bytes, 1 tape blocks x The might be GNU extension. I recall some sort of problem like this before. I just extracted the file with the GNU tar, then created it again with the Sun one. Then it could be extracted with either tar. Were any options used in creating the .spkg that might have made it only work with GNU tar? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
