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I have posted the output right after the last piece..... |
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It is seems to be installing an older version of m4 as you suggested |
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because it could not use the newer one because of a problem with a gnu |
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package of some sort: |
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https://paste.debian.net/1085999/ |
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Comments appreciated. |
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Regards |
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MF |
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> Michael, |
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> Just to elaborate a bit. There is a newer version of m4, that is |
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> attempted first. However, newer versions of GNU software now require |
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> the xz decompressor to unpack. In your scenario, an old version of m4 |
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> is being compiled. One of the reasons for choosing an older version is |
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> because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of |
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> xz. Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and |
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> bz2. |
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> We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions |
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> didn't work. |
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> Fabian |
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> On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system? |
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> > Many thanks for the response. I am not sure if xz utils is installed |
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> > by default in debian: |
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> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils |
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> > I will log in to the debian install and check. |
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> > Regards and thanks |
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> > MF |
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> > > Thanks, |
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> > > Fabian |
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> > > -- |
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> > > Fabian Groffen |
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> > > Gentoo on a different level |
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> -- |
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> Fabian Groffen |
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> Gentoo on a different level |