Re: [gentoo-alt] problem installing gentoo prefix on debian buster

[Michael Fothergill]

Many thanks again.

I checked and xz-utils is installed:

root@fart:/home/mikef# dpkg -s xz-utils | grep Status
Status: install ok installed
root@fart:/home/mikef#

I have pasted more of the output:

https://paste.debian.net/1085996/

I will make a second paste of the start of the output the terminal
buffer didn't catch and post it up as well shortly.

Regards

MF

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