A note for users of Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu’s version of tar (1.22-1) includes a regression, which causes the build to fail with the following or a similar error:

NOTE: package libtool-cross-1.5.10-r4: task do_unpack: started
[...]
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

This problem has already been corrected in versions 1.22-1.1 and later, which however are currently not part of Ubuntu 9.10.

You can find installable builds of newer versions for various architectures on Launchpad.

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2 Responses to “A note for users of Ubuntu 9.10”

  1. WeeGull says:
    February 23, 2010 at 13:33

    Worth a note is that you also need to downgrade sed to 4.1.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 or else OE 1.5 will not work properly.

    Reply
  2. stan says:
    May 25, 2010 at 17:13

    is there a basic tutorial ?

    Reply

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