From: Davis Johnson (davisfrizzen.com)
Date: Sat Jun 18 2005 - 23:57:13 CDT

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or maybe you are doing everything right but have a corrupted gziped tarball.

Davis Johnson wrote:

> I doubt it is a gcc problem.
>
> The best clue is the "gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error"
>
> I'd try different decompression options. Use -xvZf, -xvjf, -xvyf or
> even -xvf. Note the first option has an upper case Z.
>
> Check your man page for other decompression options.
>
> It is possible that it was compressed with a utility your tar doesn't
> understand. In that case you will need to decompress it with the
> appropriate utility and then untar it.
>
> For example, on solaris I am forever untaring archive.tar.Z using two
> commands:
>
> uncompress archive.tar
> tar -xvf archive.tar
>
> Try running the file command on your tar file, it might tell you how
> it is compressed.
>
> Simon Tierney wrote:
>
>>> Can anyone help, please, when I tar -xvzf this file I am getting the
>>> error
>>>
>>> "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>>> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error"
>>>
>>> and installation exits
>>>
>>> I tried to acquire the Compaq compilers mentioned under "platforms" in
>>>
>>
>> case
>>
>>
>>> it is a gcc problem, but the page is history.
>>>
>>
>

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