This is an error I haven't seen before in a BLFS build. Apparently Firefox-45 tries to get tar to update the timestamps of some of its files. Now my /sources directory at that time still belonged to the LFS user; I hadn't bothered to reassign it to myself as I already had full read and write access. So I got this error when untarring the firefox sources. In spite of this, the untarring succeeded and the build completed without error. After chowning the directory to myself, I tested again and the error was gone.
I haven't found an instruction in the book to transfer the ownership of /sources. It ought to be in Chapter 3, perhaps as part of the "Configuring for adding users" section. Something like: "After creating a user account for yourself, you should (as root) change the ownership of the /sources directory to this account. Otherwise you may get errors when untarring certain packages." Incidentally, the command explanations for firefox-45 do not match the installation commands at all and seem to belong to an earlier version. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
