[Kaffe] problem while runing any java program on SUN / Solari s 2 .5.1

[Philippe Emeriau]

Wow, thanx Michael !!!
it works perfectly ...
Today, I can tell it was a good idea to wake up  because I have learnt
something interesting : pax ...
And it seems it's going to solve my other problems, because the configure
process does not complain about my sun-sparc-solaris2.5.1 box !!!

Thanks again to everybody, I will now test the installation, and then the
execution to see if it  better than the 1.0b3 package

Cheers
Philippe

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Thies [mailto:mthies at uni-paderborn.de]
Sent: 10 February 1999 17:25
To: kaffe at rufus.w3.org
Subject: Re: [Kaffe] problem while runing any java program on SUN /
Solaris 2 .5.1


Philippe Emeriau wrote:
> 
> Hey, you're more lucky than me ...
> Even with GNU tar, I still have the same errors !
> Even worse, for each file where I have an error during the unpacking
> process, I have tried to create an empty one, but the error is still there
> ..
> 
> Am I alone with this kind of problem ???

Some directories inside the daily snapshot have strange permissions, which
prevent tar to write into the very directories it just created itself.

I use something like this to unpack the snapshots:

gzcat kaffe-snap.tar.gz | pax -r

/bin/pax (on a standard installation of Solaris 2.5 on SPARC)
supports several different archive formats (including tar) and
by default ignores the permissions stored in the archive when
extracting items from it.

Hope this helps.
Michael Thies