[Qt-interest] Issues with Configure - Assistance request for configure

[Albert E. Whale]

Paul Floyd wrote:
>>   for
>> /usr/share/src/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3/tools/designer/src/plugins/widgets/widgets.pro
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3buttongroup/q3buttongroup_plugin.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3mainwindow/q3mainwindow_container.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3widgetstack/q3widgetstack_container.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3widgetstack/q3widgetstack_plugin.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3widgetstack/qdesigner_q3widgetstack.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3datetimeedit/q3datetimeedit_plugin.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3progressbar/q3progressbar_plugin.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3textbrowser/q3textbrowser_plugin.cpp
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3widgetstack/q3widgetstack_container.h
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3widgetstack/qdesigner_q3widgetstack_p.h
>> WARNING: Failure to find: q3datetimeedit/q3datetimeedit_plugin.h
>>   for /usr/share/src/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3/tools/designer/src/src.pro
>>   for
>> /usr/share/src/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.3/tools/designer/src/uitools/uitools.pro
>>     
>
> To me that smells of GNU tar. The Qt tar file was probably created with 
> GNU tar, which uses a non-standard (Single Unix Standard to be precise) 
> extension for long file names. Solaris tar, which is standard, can't 
> extract these files.
>
> If you have gtar in /usr/sfw/bin (or /opt/sfw/bin - not sure on Solaris 
> 9) that should be able to unpack the file e.g. with something like
>
> gzcat [tar file] | gtar xvf -
>
> A+
> Paul
>
>   

Thank you Paul.  I will give that a try.  Perhaps we can add something
of this sort to the Readme??

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