On Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:34 +0100
Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I'm just trying to upgrade a package on my LFS-7.1 system, and a
> compile failed because /usr/lib64/libstdc++.la was not a valid
> libtool archive.  Too right - it was empty!  Looking at ls -l it was
> updated on 30th April (original install was on 8th April).
> 
>  Fortunately, my oldest backup was before that and I was able to
> restore it.  But I'm sure I've seen something similar, perhaps even
> the same file, in the past few months (not necessarily on this
> particular system).  Looking at other updates, nothing (apart from
> kernel upgrades) since 28th April until today.
> 
>  Anyone seen anything like this ?

No, sorry. Could it be a hardware problem/bad disk sector? Have you run
fsck? The other possibility is some sort of scripting error/bad sed but
that's just speculation.

Andy
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