On 03/01/2019 16:33, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 01/03/2019 04:42 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building tar-1.31 on a homebrew system that is based on (Beyond)
>> Linux From Scratch. It is very stable even though
>> it is frequently ahead of LFS in terms of installed package
>> versions.
>
> tar is not in BLFS and BLFS is not ahead of LFS. Both are released at the
> same time.
Sorry, a bit imprecise with my statement there. "It" refers to my system, which
is sometimes ahead of LFS/BLFS.
Additionally, I have applications installed that I don't think are in (B)LFS -
MATE desktop for example. It is however,
very stable indeed.
>
>> I am building with the latest snapshot of gcc-8.
>>
>> Please let me know if I there is any other information you need or
>> can help in any other way (e.g. test fixes).
>>
>> Chris Clayton
>
> On my reference LFS system I get:
>
> 208 tests were successful.
> 21 tests were skipped.
>
> 15: compress: lzip skipped (compress-lzip.at:28)
> 16: compress: lzop skipped (compress-lzop.at:28)
> 17: compress: zstd skipped (compress-zstd.at:28)
> 82: extracting symlinks to a read-only dir skipped (extrac07.at:30)
> 84: extracting even when . and .. are unreadable skipped (extrac09.at:37)
> 90: extract parent mkdir failure skipped (extrac15.at:28)
> 96: delay-directory-restore skipped (extrac21.at:33)
> 109: incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable skipped
> (listed03.at:27)
> 131: ignfail skipped (ignfail.at:26)
> 150: volumes split at an extended header skipped (multiv07.at:31)
> 160: listing sparse files bigger than 2^33 B skipped (sparse05.at:31)
> 176: volume header size skipped (volsize.at:32)
> 184: remove-files with compression skipped (remfiles01.at:32)
> 216: selinux: basic store/restore skipped (selnx01.at:28)
> 217: acls/selinux: special files & fifos skipped (selacl01.at:28)
> 224: gtarfail skipped (gtarfail.at:26)
> 225: gtarfail2 skipped (gtarfail2.at:26)
> 226: multi-fail skipped (multi-fail.at:26)
> 227: ustar-big-2g skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:26)
> 228: ustar-big-8g skipped (ustar-big-8g.at:26)
> 229: pax-big-10g skipped (pax-big-10g.at:26)
>
> Note that we normally build tar as root.
>
I'll try that although my normal practice is to build everything (including
earlier versions of tar) as an non-root user.
> There were no failures. Some skips are due to missing dependencies, but that
> is acceptable.
>
> -- Bruce Dubbs
> linuxfromscratch.org
