Mario Meier wrote: > !! I am not english native speaker. I am from Austria and maybe I > will post sentences that are grammatically wrong. Please ask me if > you do not understand me.
Sometimes non-native speakers know more about our language than native-speakers. :) > I have a big problem. I already tried to build LFS multiple times. My > current try is from a VirtualBox VM with a Win7 host and an openSUSE > guest system. > > I put the source tarballs to a directory on the host system > (accessable as shared folder at /mnt/host), but I use the LINUX tar > to extract the archives. I know that using Windows applications may > cause errors. > > I have extracted GCC to /mnt/lfs/sources (I will call it /sources in > the rest of the mail) and have set the $src variable to /mnt/host. > > I always used this command to extract an archive: > > tar -xvaf <package>*.tar* > > That should allow me to leave out the version number and the > compression file extension. The -a flag means that TAR automatically > detects the compression method. > In the german support channel, they told me to leave out -a. I did so > and also left out the stars and wrote the full path. The -a is not necessary. I don't really care to watch the output of tar any more, so I just use 'tar -xf $DIR/$PROGRAM.tar.?z*' in my scripts. That gets .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz. It misses the occasional .tgz. > I had tested if that worked. It now says, "libmprf not found or uses > different ABI" > > Could you help me please? I'm not sure what your question is. You have openSUSE and it doesn't extract the tarfiles? What version of tar do you have? 'tar --version'. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
