GNU tar for HP-UX

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Dear Gurus,

I have downloade the GNU tar for my HP-UX 11i v2 (HP-UX 11.23) for Itanium2 at this website.
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15/

I have successfully installed it but when i executed. I gives the error:

/tmp # /usr/local/bin/tar cvf datelog.tar *.log
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libintl.so'.
Killed

What could be wrong? Maximum points for all correct replies.

[Steven E. Protter]

There may not be a correct reply.

The product may be broken.

swverify \*

See that output look for an incomplete installation.

Usually these problems result from the actual file not being presentL

ll /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so

Or....

The SHLIB_PATH variable not being set.

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib
export SHLIB_PATH

Try again.

SEP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

Steven, you should know better by now! :)

HP porting centers still allow internationalization (localization), even for basic utilities like tar, cpio, and gcc.

Though this is in my opinion VERY wrong and annoying.

This makes these utils depending on TWO other packages: iconv and gettext, packages you probably never wnt to use at all.

For ALL packages from the porting center READ the run-time deps and install them too. In case of tar, they didn't even mention them. "Their fault, core dumped". This can make me angry: making unneccasary deps, and then not mentioning it.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.9.2/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.14.1/

HP Porting center people: if you read this, please always use '--disable-nls' when calling configure. Thanks.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Pando]

Dear Procura,

Thanks! It was a great help!