I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. Whats the problem?
The problem is caused by a limitation in the original tar spec, which prevented it from archiving files with long pathnames. Unfortunately, various current versions of tar use different extensions for eliminating this restriction which are incompatible with each other (or they do not remove the restriction at all). Rather than altering the pathnames for the XML4C package, which would make them compatible with the original tar spec but make it more difficult to know what was where, it was decided to use GNU tar (gtar), which handles arbitrarily long pathnames and is freely available on every platform on which XML4C is supported. If you don’t already have GNU tar installed on your system, you can obtain it from the Free Software Foundation http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html. For additional background information on this problem, see the online manual GNU tar and POSIX tar for the utility.
