Hello After downloading tar and patch, ungzip it applying patch and the "debian/rules binary" command the configure script go well but:
....cut... creating config.h linking ./lib/fnmatch.hin to lib/fnmatch.hno make make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17' make all-recursive make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17' Making all in doc make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/doc' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/doc' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/lib' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c addext.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c argmatch.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c backupfile.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c basename.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c error.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c exclude.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c full-write.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c getdate.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c getopt.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c getopt1.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c human.c human.c: In function `human_readable_inexact': human.c:118: warning: `power' might be used uninitialized in this function gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c modechange.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c msleep.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c quotearg.c quotearg.c: In function `quotearg_buffer_restyled': quotearg.c:372: warning: implicit declaration of function `iswprint' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c safe-read.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c save-cwd.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c xgetcwd.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c xmalloc.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c xstrdup.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c xstrtoul.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -O2 -g -Wall -c xstrtoumax.c rm -f libtar.a ar cru libtar.a addext.o argmatch.o backupfile.o basename.o error.o exclude.o fu safe-read.o save-cwd.o xgetcwd.o xmalloc.o xstrdup.o xstrtoul.o xstrtoumax.o ranlib libtar.a make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/lib' Making all in intl make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/intl' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/intl' Making all in m4 make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/m4' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/m4' Making all in src make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/src' make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/fnmatch.h', needed by `buffer.o'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17' make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 I have search the bug report, but I cannot find anythning like this for tar. What is the solution for this problem ? Alfred -- http://munnikes.op.het.net/ Linux beginners FAQ's Running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.14 7:50pm up 2:16, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.17, 0.16