Michael G. Schabert writes:
> 
> Hi all, I was looking to cross-compile a kernel for a friend, but when I
> tried to make the binutils it didn't work. This is with pkgsrc supped
> yesterday (4/30/99) on a kernel & system built yesterday.

This has been the case for a good while on my alpha multia, and my
solution was the same as yours. I still have no idea why this happens.

> 
> prez# pwd
> /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils
> prez# make install
> >> Checksum OK for binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz.
> ===>  Extracting for cross-binutils-2.9.1.0
> ===>  cross-binutils-2.9.1.0 depends on file: /usr/pkg/bin/pkglibtool-1.2p1
> - found
> /usr/bin/tar: -X not found in archive
> /usr/bin/tar: /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils/files/exclude not found in archive
> ===>  Patching for cross-binutils-2.9.1.0
> ===>  Applying NetBSD patches for cross-binutils-2.9.1.0
> patch: **** can't cd to /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils/work/binutils-2.9.1: No
> such file or directory
> Patch /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils/patches/patch-aa failed
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At this point, there's a /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils/work directory, but the
> only thing in that is .extract_done, & as the error points out, there's no
> binutils-2.9.1 within the work directory.
> 
> Now, I just manually cd's into the work directory & ran a
> tar -zxpX /usr/pkgsrc/cross/binutils/files/exclude -f
> /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz
> 
> so that fixed it on my system (well, at least it's past there & is
> currently configging :), but my question is whether it was something on
> just my machine that caused the arguments to tar to be messed up or whether
> something is wrong in netbsd's current setup.
> 
> Mike
> Bikers don't *DO* taglines.
> 


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