Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Problem with tla on NetBSD 2.0.

[Markku Rossi]

Dustin Sallings wrote:
>     I'm having a problem with tla (from pkgsrc) on NetBSD 2.0.  I had 
> the  same problem with one I'd built myself from sources, but I don't 
> quite  get what's going on.
...
> /usr/pkg/bin/gtar: Unaligned block (4000 bytes) in archive
> /usr/pkg/bin/gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> Broken pipe
> 0.203u 0.122s 0:00.45 71.1%     0+0k 1+405io 0pf+0w
>
> (two more runs and this tree was up to date).
>
>     Has anyone seen anything like this?  ...or perhaps have a clue what  
> could be causing it?

I had similar problems on NetBSD-2.0_RC4 when I was compiling tla-1.3-rcXX from 
sources.  I managed to get it working when I compiled it like this:

                          GNU Arch on NetBSD
                          ==================

* Install GNU stuff:

  - GNU patch 2.5.4
  - GNU tar 1.12
  - make `tlatar' a symlink to `GNU tar 1.12'

* Install official GZIP

   - gzip 1.2.4
   - make sure that gzip-1.2.4 is the first zip in your path.

* Configure Arch:

   $ ../configure --with-gnu-patch=gpatch --with-gnu-tar=tlatar
   $ make
   $ make test

I also tried other GNU tar versions but 1.12 was the only one that worked for 
me.  I am not sure what's the problem but NetBSD has its own gzip version, 
maybe that's not 100% compatible with www.gzip.org version...

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