(Sorry if this comes through twice. My first attempt seems to have vanished.)
Hi, I was starting the gcc-4.7.1 (Pass 1) build in Chap. 5 and I was trying to unpack the files compressed with xz following the command given there: tar -Jxf ../mpfr-3.1.1.tar.xz but I got this error message: tar: invalid option -- J I guessed my host system tar is too old, but it is tar-1.19 and this is newer than the minimum version, tar-1.18, stated in the host system requirements. It's not a problem because I can unpack the files in two steps: first with xz, then with tar. But I think you may want to update the tar version in the host system requirements. I checked the tar release info at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/#releases -J was only introduced as a new short option in tar-1.21 as an alias for --lzma. And in tar-1.22, the --xz option was introduced to support xz compression, while the short option -J was reassigned as a shortcut for --xz. Toni -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
