installing ant on aix 5.2

[hi...@accenture.com]

Hello guys,
I am trying to install ant on a AIX 5.2 and i can not even untar the distribution(binary one).
Any clue?Is is a matter of GNU tar?
Hind Lwahhabi.


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Re: installing ant on aix 5.2

[Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>]

hind.lwahhabi@accenture.com wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I am trying to install ant on a AIX 5.2 and i can not even untar the distribution(binary one).
> Any clue?Is is a matter of GNU tar?

yes, aix, like solaris and hpus has an old broken tar implementation 
from AT&T, that cannot handle long filenames.

this should be covered in the ant documentation.

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