Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/23/2012 07:33 PM, nettxzl wrote: (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

[lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
(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:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
nettxzl wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:33 PM, nettxzl wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread Firerat
On 24 Nov 2012 00:33, nettxzl nett...@gmail.com wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: nettxzl wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:07 PM, nettxzl wrote: Hi, good to know. I tried it out tar -xf filename.xz but it does not unpack and I get the error messages what's your host OS and the md5sum of the archive and does it match the book's md5sum, and where did you download it from? Sincerely,

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:33 PM, nettxzl wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, Firerat fire...@googlemail.com wrote: On 24 Nov 2012 00:33, nettxzl nett...@gmail.com wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:22 PM, nettxzl wrote: But not -xz. If you look at the changelogs you pasted there is no mention of -xz. At most they only mention -lzma which is the predecessor to -xz. xz installs the link for lzma. -xz isn't a valid option for tar. I don't know what you are getting

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:22:50AM +0800, nettxzl wrote: On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: Tar has been able to auto-detect the compression method based on the extension since as per changelog 2009-09-08 Sergey Poznyakoff g...@gnu.org.ua [...] But

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:22 PM, nettxzl wrote: But not -xz. If you look at the changelogs you pasted there is no mention of -xz. At most they only mention -lzma which is the predecessor to -xz. xz installs the link for lzma. -xz

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:11 PM, nettxzl wrote: As I said in my first post, my version of tar is 1.19 What is your HOST OS and output of tar --help ? Sincerely, William Harrington.-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, nettxzl nett...@gmail.com wrote: (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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:11 PM, nettxzl wrote: As I said in my first post, my version of tar is 1.19 What is your HOST OS and output of tar --help ? Sincerely, William Harrington. Ok, I was getting to it. I was in the middle of

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:22 PM, nettxzl wrote: Ok, I updated the tar version on my host system to tar-1.22 (from 1.19) and now it works fine. -Jxf works, -xf works From :LFS 7.0 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.1/chapter05/gcc-pass1.html to LFS 7.1

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
My present LFS/BLFS is based on a hybrid LFS-6.3/SVN version (SVN-20080412, SVN-20080423) I forgot to mention, I installed xz separately because it was not part of LFS-6.3. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread William Harrington
On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:46 PM, nettxzl wrote: My present LFS/BLFS is based on a hybrid LFS-6.3/SVN version (SVN-20080412, SVN-20080423) I forgot to mention, I installed xz separately because it was not part of LFS-6.3. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: 2009-03-05 1.22 # Support for xz compression (--xz option) # Short option -J is reassigned as a shortcut for --xz (And support for xz compression, and the short option -J in place of --xz was only introduced in 1.22) That matches my experience - back in the day, I

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:46 PM, nettxzl wrote: My present LFS/BLFS is based on a hybrid LFS-6.3/SVN version (SVN-20080412, SVN-20080423) I forgot to mention, I installed xz separately because it was not part of LFS-6.3. --

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.2 host system tar version

2012-11-23 Thread nettxzl
On 11/24/12, nettxzl nett...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/12, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:46 PM, nettxzl wrote: My present LFS/BLFS is based on a hybrid LFS-6.3/SVN version (SVN-20080412, SVN-20080423) I forgot to mention, I installed xz separately