Re: [bug-libunistring] libunistring download issue

[Pádraig Brady]

On 18/09/15 18:19, Studevant, Glenn T (AS) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>                I downloaded libunistring-0.9.5.tar.tar from your web-site and 
> attempted to extract it on our RHEL 5.1 platform.  I got an error when I 
> attempted to do this.  This is the text from the error:
> 
>  
> 
> /bin/gtar:            This does not look like a tar archive
> 
> /bin/gtar:            Skipping to next header
> 
> /bin/gtar:            Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> 
> /bin/gtar:            Read 5364 bytes from /media/Sep 18 
> 2015/libunistring-0.9.5.tar.tar
> 
> /bin/gtar:            Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
>  
> 
> I was therefore unable to load libunistring which I need to compile guile.

I'm not sure where you downloaded from, or why your file has the double tar.tar 
extension.
Please try:

  wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.5.tar.gz
  tar -xf libunistring-0.9.5.tar.gz

Note also that 0.9.6 is available.

thanks,
Pádraig.