On 3/19/10, Mike McCarty <mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I wonder if "head" is closing the input pipe when it has read > all it needs, and that's causing the error. I can't reproduce > that problem with my host system, however.
It is tar-1.23 and not head head --version head (GNU coreutils) 8.4 tar -xf tar-1.23.tar.bz2 cd tar-1.23 ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin make src/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.23 src/tar -tf ../tar-1.23.tar.bz2 | head -1 tar-1.23/ src/tar: write error tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.22 tar -tf ../tar-1.23.tar.bz2 | head -1 tar: Record size = 8 blocks tar-1.23/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
