[Nix-dev] tar mkdir function not implemented

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Thu Nov 3 21:24:18 CET 2011


Hi,

On 11/03/2011 04:14 PM, quick at sparq.org wrote:

> building /nix/store/0jmzlnayh2p06vlgmiiyaj3xppc6l9lr-zlib-1.2.5
> unpacking sources
> unpacking source archive /nix/store/hadgw0cdg8f8dlnd47lqk15rdpwfdwnx-
> zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
> zlib-1.2.5/
> tar: zlib-1.2.5: Cannot mkdir: Function not implemented

This wouldn't happen to be on some kind of Red Hat / Centos system, right?  I
seem to remember that they made some incompatible kernel changes in some
versions that caused incompatibilities with vanilla Glibc.

The "unpacking sources" message comes from pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh (in
Nixpkgs).

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