Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:05:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com>
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Subject: Re: checkdir errors using unzip32.exe?
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> I'm in the process of rebuilding my DJGPP environment, and in
> unzipping a number of the v2gnu zip files, I'm getting many "checkdir"
> errors like the following:
> 
> >From gcc2953b.zip (sorry for the word wrap):
> 
> checkdir error:  lib/gcc-lib/djgpp exists but is not directory
>                  unable to process

I've seen such messages from unzip on some rare occasions, but never had 
time to debug that.  It's quite clear that it's some bug in unzip, 
because DJTAR has no problems to unpack the same archives.

> I get a *lot* of these, and the pattern seems to be that unzip32 is
> failing to create multiple directories (like lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.953,

It's possible that they fail in this case, but it's still a bug IMHO.
And the message is highly misleading, if that's indeed the problem.