Issues in Dowloading Decimal Floating-Point Math Library

[shawnhcorey]

When I download from this site, <https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pre-release-license-agreement-for-intel-decimal-floating-point-math-library>, and try to un-tar it, I get:

$ tar xvf IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

But when I download from the mirror at <http://www.netlib.org/misc/intel/>, I get a copy I can compile. Could someone look into this?

Extra info:

$ cmp IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz ~/projects/IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz 
IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz ~/projects/IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz differ: byte 4, line 1

[TimP]

How about tar zxvf, or, with extremely old versions, gunzip -c IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz | tar xv

It's also included in the gcc source distribution.

[shawnhcorey]

$ tar zxvf IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

What does the compiler have to do with it? It doesn't un-tar. There's something wrong with the tar header.

This one worked, if you add the 'z' flag:

$ gunzip -c IntelRDFPMathLib20U1.tar.gz | tar zxv
IntelRDFPMathLib20U1/
IntelRDFPMathLib20U1/eula.txt
IntelRDFPMathLib20U1/README
IntelRDFPMathLib20U1/EXAMPLES/
...

[Corey_A_Intel]

Please submit to Intel® Math Kernel Library forum https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-math-kernel-library