xz in base system trouble on MIPS

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Dec 5 23:06:43 UTC 2010


On 12/05/2010 15:10, Milan Obuch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to test various system parts and ports building on my RSPRO. There
> is a problem with xz as compiled with base system - trying to build misc/mc
> gives 'unknown file format' error on /usr/ports/distfiles/mc-4.7.4.tar.lzma
> tarball. After commenting out IGNORE line in archive/xz Makefile, compilling,
> installing the port and 'cp /usr/local/bin/xz /usr/bin/xz' this error is gone.
>
> What could be root cause of this? As both base system and ports xz is version
> 5.0, I think there must be some error in base system integration or some
> tweaking is not done...
I always guess endian problems on MIPS or big endian ARM when things 
don't work quite right.  But I don't see any errors there...

First step: diff the sources?

also, current or stable?

Warner



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