Corrupt Solaris 8 binaries?

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Alan Orndorff writes:
 > David Proulx wrote:
 > > 
 > > I downloaded both of the Solaris 8 binary packages from
 > > http://www.linas.org/pub/gnucash/gnucash/solaris-8
 > > and cannot unzip them. "gunzip" complains:
 > > 
 > > > gunzip GNUcash.1.4.3.Solaris.8.Sparc.tar.gz
 > > 
 > > gunzip: GNUcash.1.4.3.Solaris.8.Sparc.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
 > > 
 > > "tar" doesn't work on it either:
 > > 
 > > > tar tvzf GNUcash.1.4.3.Solaris.8.Sparc.tar.gz
 > > drwxr-xr-x root/other        0 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/
 > > -rw-r--r-- root/other    36815 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/pkgmap
 > > -rw-r--r-- root/other      148 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/pkginfo
 > > drwxr-xr-x root/other        0 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/root/
 > > drwxr-xr-x root/other        0 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/root/usr/
 > > drwxr-xr-x root/other        0 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/root/usr/local/
 > > drwxr-xr-x root/other        0 2000-08-07 04:05 GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin/
 > > -rwxr-xr-x root/other     6688 2000-08-07 03:57 GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin/gnc-prices
 > > -rwxr-xr-x root/other 13919696 2000-08-07 03:57 GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin/gnucash
 > 
 > Dave,
 > 
 >    Can you pull all of the Solaris Packages offline for a while.  This
 > is wierd.
 > 
 > I tested a couple of these before sending them over and I just ftp'd all
 > 4 of them
 > and they all fail as indicated above.  I'm going to recompile 1.45 and
 > remake 
 > the package, test it again, send it over, wait for you to repost it, and
 > then 
 > grab it again to make sure its still good.
 > 

If you're going to rebuild the Solaris packages, why not update to
1.4.6?  It's basically bugfixes, so there should be no change to the
required build environment.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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