I'm catching up to you guys, slowly. I'm building 7.10. Chapter 5 ran smoothly, after catching a few script typos. I've just started Chapter 6, building the FHS. Following a successful "install", my build scripts immediately make a tarball of the as-built install files. That failed.
An example case copied verbatim from the console log: I have no name!:/# tar czf dummy.tgz /usr tar: tar (child): Removing leading `/' from member namesgzip: Cannot exec : No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: dummy.tgz: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I have no name!:/# tar cf dummy.tgz /usr tar: Removing leading `/' from member names I have no name!:/# ls tools/bin/gzip tools/bin/gzip I have no name!:/# ls /tools/bin/gzip /tools/bin/gzip I have no name!:/# echo $PATH bin:/usr/bin:sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin I have no name!:/# For some reason the tar installed in Ch5 cannot find gzip. It exists, and is in the path. Tar makes unzipped tarballs without complaint. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Same, same, but different... -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
