binutils-2.14/etc directory not in binutils-2.14 tarball?

[Lourens Veen]

Hi,

I just tried unpacking binutils-2.14.tar.bz2, and tar gave me a 
whole bunch of error messages that looked like

tar: binutils-2.14/etc/Makefile.in: Could not create file: No such 
file or directory

I found it that the binutils-2.14/etc directory is not in the 
archive. Just to be sure I also downloaded binutils-2.14.tar.gz, 
and it had the same problem. The md5 sums of the files I downloaded 
are:

2da8def15d28af3ec6af0982709ae90a  binutils-2.14.tar.bz2
ba665d0ddcc88313384b79e293ecbbab  binutils-2.14.tar.gz

Using GNU tar 1.13, gzip 1.2.4 and bzip2 1.0.1 (rather old I know, 
I'm building an LFS system to replace my ancient Slackware install)

Is tar supposed to create the directory automagically? At any rate, 
even if it does, it seems strange that it is not included in the 
tarball. Or is this intended for some reason?

I also searched the archives of this list and binutils-bugs, but 
couldn't find anything. Please CC replies to me as I'm not 
subscribed.

Thanks,

Lourens
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