Hello,

> On 11 Jul 2021, at 12:38, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> is anybody else unable to build current "next" branch as well?
> 
> On my workstation, ./make.sh build requires a toolchain to be present (unless memories fail
> me, I thought it was possible to compile IPFire 2.x without a toolchain). After having executed
> ./make.sh gettoolchain, tar complains about the downloaded toolchain not looking like a tar
> archive - presumably because the toolchain archive uses zstd now, and tar does not recognise
> this format.

Could you post more about this error?

Yes, the toolchain is now compressed using zstd. Tar should know that on any recent distribution.

> In addition, some issues around chroot and env arise here as well:
> 
>> Jul 11 11:33:07: Building stage2 chroot: failed to run command 'env': No such file or directory

This just says that you didn’t extract the toolchain successfully.

> Cleaning cache directories and the entire ipfire-2.x Git repository accomplishes nothing.

Does the downloaded toolchain look like a tarball?

Best,
-Michael

> 
> I guess this will be a lazy Sunday then... :-)
> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller