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    From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Sat Sep 26 09:30:12 2026
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    Hi guys !

    I create a zip file on Solaris with "zip -qry" (thus containing
    symlinks) and when I try to unzip it, this dies with a "bus error" (not
    seen for decades!) when "finishing deferred symbolic links:". I can
    unzip the file on macOS with no problems, the links are created
    correctly. So the archive seems to be ok.

    Surprisingly, the "unzip" version on Solaris is "Info-ZIP UnZip
    6.1c25-BETA (2018-12-20)", which is not only newer than on macOS ("UnZip
    6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP, with modifications by Apple Inc.")
    but also a beta release.

    I "truss"ed the "unzip" attempt but I don't know what's going wrong. Is
    this beta version known to be buggy?
    I don't have a Solaris 10 machine at the moment and all the Solaris 11 instances seem to have the same new version. I did the same on a couple
    of them, always with the same error. I also tried to find the source
    code for an older version (in order to build it by myself) but couldn't
    find it.

    Does anybody have an older "unzip" binary for SPARC that I could test?

    Thanks for any hint!

    Frank

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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Sat Sep 26 09:45:29 2026
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    FWIW: "unzip -v" and "unzip -t" is working ...

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  • From jayjwa@jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid to comp.unix.solaris on Sat Sep 26 12:40:26 2026
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    Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> writes:

    I create a zip file on Solaris with "zip -qry" (thus containing
    symlinks) and when I try to unzip it, this dies with a "bus error"
    (not seen for decades!) when "finishing deferred symbolic links:". I
    can unzip the file on macOS with no problems, the links are created correctly. So the archive seems to be ok.

    Does anybody have an older "unzip" binary for SPARC that I could test?

    I have a virtual machine Solaris 9
    uname -a [pts/5 hst:35]
    SunOS kulve.lan 5.9 Generic_118558-34 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5

    with

    file /usr/bin/zip [pts/5 hst:28]
    /usr/bin/zip: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

    file /usr/bin/unzip [pts/5 hst:29]
    /usr/bin/unzip: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped

    unzip -v [pts/5 hst:30]
    UnZip 5.32 of 3 November 1997, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by Greg Roelofs. Send bug reports to the authors at Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu; see README for details.

    Compiled with cc for Unix (Sun SPARC/Solaris) on Apr 14 2002.

    zip -v [pts/5 hst:31]
    Copyright (C) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP
    Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
    This is Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999), by Info-ZIP.
    Currently maintained by Onno van der Linden. Please send bug reports to
    the authors at Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu; see README for details.

    It works fine, both ways (tested). Is that of help? If those programs
    weren't on the install DVD, they probably came from
    companion-sparc-sol9.iso to the best of my memory.
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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Sun Sep 27 08:45:55 2026
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    On 26.09.2026 18:40, jayjwa wrote:

    >I have a virtual machine Solaris 9

    Cool! :)

    >It works fine, both ways (tested). Is that of help? If those programs
    Thanks for the offer but I think I need at least v6.0 to support the
    symlinks. Maybe there is also a newer version than this 6.1 beta which
    fixes the isuue?
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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Mon Sep 28 09:31:37 2026
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    On 27.09.2026 10:00, James wrote:

    >https://www.xdrv.uk/download/unzip
    >
    >It is from the sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso.-a I can not test it as I do
    >not have a running Sparc machine but the corresponding unzip for x86
    >says "UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009"

    Did you put it there?

    >Alternatively compile your own:
    >https://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html

    I also found that but it looks somehow dead, doesn't it?

    >https://download.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/infozip/unzip60.tar.gz

    That's what I was looking for with no success.

    But at the end, this 6.0 binary creates the links as expected :) ...
    thanks a lot!

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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Mon Sep 28 10:13:34 2026
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    On 28.09.2026 09:31, I wrote:

    > -a>Alternatively compile your own:
    > -a>https://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html
    >
    >I also found that but it looks somehow dead, doesn't it?
    So I doubt it's possible or even useful to open a bug for 6.1 on Solaris
    there ...
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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Mon Sep 28 11:28:02 2026
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    It's getting even funnier! I just updated some machines to 11.4.95 - and
    out of curiosity, I instantly tried it out. Believe it or not, also the "on-board" version is working here. So I can only see the bug on 11.4.94
    up to now. I'll try some older versions ...
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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Mon Sep 28 11:48:05 2026
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    11.4.93 is also not affected - very cute!

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  • From Frank Winkler@usenet@f.winkler-ka.de to comp.unix.solaris on Thu Oct 1 08:49:06 2026
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    It's a mess! The dependency of Solaris versions seems to be wrong and it
    looks more or less unreproducable whether the built-in "unzip" works or
    not. The funny thing is that file links are created correctly but it
    crashes while processing those "deferred links" at the end - directories?
    The 6.0 binary doesn't seem to have problems with the links BUT it fails
    to restore GIDs with "-X". And excluding files with "-x" does nothing,
    in both cases.

    I'm now trying to build a combination of old and new "unzip" to get the archive unpacked ...
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