Charlie Brady: > Sorry, doesn't work for me: > You need a POSIX-conformant system with all of the POSIX utilities, including |pax| . The Debian |package/debian/control| file automatically ensures this on Debian, with its |Build-Depends:| information. The BSDs have these tools /as standard/ in the base operating system, out of the box. Thomas Caravia both notes this in the Archnosh doco (in the section headed "Dependencies") and declares it as a |makedepends| in the |PKGBUILD| itself so that it is automatically ensured on Arch. You are going to have to do this yourself on your operating system, too.