Re: [Bug-tar] pls help

[Paul Eggert]

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> Hello, I am building tar on our Solaris box...
> ...
> /cccimp/run/pd/gcc/3.3.4-32bit/bin/gcc  -I/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/gtk/include 
> -I/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/kdelibs/include 
> -I/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/graphviz/include -L/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/gtk/lib 
> -L/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/kdelibs/lib 
> -L/home/a4dev/opt/kdev/graphviz/lib/graphviz -o tar  buffer.o compare.o 
> create.o delete.o extract.o xheader.o incremen.o list.o mangle.o misc.o 
> names.o rtapelib.o sparse.o system.o tar.o update.o utf8.o ../lib/libtar.a  
> -lrt
> ../lib/libtar.a(human.o)(.text+0x70): In function `adjust_value':
> : undefined reference to `_Q_flt'

This looks like some sort of GCC installation error on your end.
I think _Q_flt has something to do with adding 64-bit integers?
This is something that 'tar' needs to do, but it should be easy
to accomplish on Solaris with GCC.

Are you using Solaris 9?  If so, Sun has built GNU tar for you and has
released it as a package; perhaps you should use that.  See:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-09/msg00069.html