iso3166.tab should be copied to! tzselect fails if the file is missing.
and the one provided in tzdata2012e is newer then the one provided by glibc where SS (South Sudan) is missing. to avoid building the timezones while compiling glibc, one can apply the following sed: sed -e "s/localedata timezone rt/localedata rt/" \ -i Makeconfig and a last remark: we should explain why to use America/New_York and not the builders current timezone! in Makeconfig there is a good explanation. tobias -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page