[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

I am an outsider in TeXlive internals, but based on my experience (with large 
UNIX/Linux SMPs), I agree with you that the native tools should be considered 
always. 

Nevertheless, I am very glad installation was successful and I am greatful to 
people who put in so many hours to keep this project moving on.

Michael


On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

| Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:27:39 +0200
| From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org>
| Reply-To: tex-live at tug.org
| To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
| Cc: tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for
|      Solaris10 x86
| 
| 	Hello Michael,
| 
| > I ended up using a GNU version of tar and the installation proceeded 
| > "without a hitch" (with something like env PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" 
| > ./install-tl ...). 
| 
|   Actually, my message was rather directed to the TeX Live team, in
| order to find a definitive fix for this particular problem.  Of course,
| in your case, since you have GNU tar installed, and you know how to use
| it, you're better off using it directly.
| 
|   I've been compiling many programs on Solaris myself, and contributed
| patches to makefiles and source files, and as a rule, I tried to use the
| Solaris tools, but very often, it is really simpler to use the GNU
| version of every program (at some point last year, I had to use two
| different shells consecutively during the XeTeX build; I don't know how
| Jonathan fixed the problem in the end).
| 

| 	Arthur
|