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Date:Mon Apr 10 08:00:18 2003 
Subject:Re: March 10 Changes 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:1030410.01 

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, john duncan wrote:

>           It is something which is happening when this directory
> ./C.all/lib/lib is untarred on NetBSD whether under the Linux emulation
> directory or not. I have checked all the files in this directory and it
> only happens to mkimage.p

Sounds like a bug in either gunzip or tar, though I find it hard to
believe that NetBSD uses different source for those.

If you just 'tar cfz' that lib directory then untar it I wonder
if it corrupts the file.

>           I have downloaded the tarball with a few different programs
> and the behaviour is the same, the timestamp of mkimage.p is changed
> so the system is rewriting this first character.
>           I will play with this further before I give in and mount my
> Debian partition and try copying over /usr/local/poplog to NetBSD.

That's a lot of effort to get round one wrong character in one file.

If you have everything untarred correctly apart from the one file, edit
the file to fix it, or fetch this one

	http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/C.all/lib/lib/mkimage.p

then copy and edit the installation script (run by run_install)

	INSTALL_MOTIF_POPLOG

to leave out this line

	zcat $tardir/linux-pc-1553a.tar.gz | tar xf -

Then everything should work if that one file is the only thing
corrupted.

Aaron