[tex-live] Installation on Solaris 8

[Don Pellegrino]

I have run the TeX Live 2005 installer with the OVERRIDE_DEBUG environment variable set to true on Solaris 8 using a default root login shell as per Karl Berry's instructions.  This produced an impressive amount of debugging information.  I trimmed the output to the lines I believe may be relevant and pasted them below.

My interpretation of the output is that I was incorrect in my assumption that the tar syntax was invalid.  My guess now is that the $TARPROG variable is not being set.  Additionally I see a line that sets tarverbose=v.  Based on this, the error should be "sh: xvf: not found," however the "v" is missing.  This indicates that the tarverbose variable assignment may not be working either.  I started the installer with "# /bin/sh -vx install-tl.sh" so I am confident it ran under the Solaris 8 default shell. I also find in the output that "TARPROG=tar" and "TAROPT=".

What is your interpretation?

Now copying selected files
+ true 
+ echo  from the lists in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764...  
 from the lists in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764... 
+ ls /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/PKGONLY.list /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/collection-basic.list /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/collection-latex.list 
+ true 
+ echo Copy files listed in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/PKGONLY.list 
Copy files listed in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/PKGONLY.list
+ true 
+ sort -u /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/PKGONLY.list 
+ test x = x 
+ true 
tarverbose=v
+ cd /cdrom/texcol2005/texlive 
+ /bin/xargs sh -c tar cf - $* \
        | (cd /usr/local/texlive/2005; umask 0; $TARPROG x${tarverbose}f -) sh 
sh: xf: not found
+ true 
tar: Missing filenames
+ echo Copy files listed in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/collection-basic.list 
Copy files listed in /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/collection-basic.list
+ true 
+ sort -u /tmp/.tmp_tlinst.27764/collection-basic.list 
+ test x = x 
+ true 
tarverbose=v
+ cd /cdrom/texcol2005/texlive 
+ /bin/xargs sh -c tar cf - $* \
        | (cd /usr/local/texlive/2005; umask 0; $TARPROG x${tarverbose}f -) sh 
sh: xf: not found

<snip 152 repeats of the above line>

sh: xf: not found
+ echo 

+ echo Done copying. 
Done copying.