While compiling the timezone data in 6.9.2.2. Adding time zone data I got an error about tar -xf ../../tzdata2018e.tar.gz not found. The problem was that in my source directory the package name is tzdata2018g.tar.gz
. But the book uses tzdata2018e.tar.gz. Make sure you pass the correct package name. It took me hours to fix the error.

I am following the LFS 8.3. Here is the instruction on the book(configuring Glibc):
tar -xf ../../tzdata2018e.tar.gz

ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}

for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
asia australasia backward pacificnew systemv; do
zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
done

cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
unset ZONEINFO

Best,

A good option is to use ths "tab" button to auto complete. That would of pick up what versin you had

That is what I would in the nominal way but to avoid any typo, I copy-paste the command instructions from the book in my terminal. I just want to make it clear that the book uses a different name(Linux-from-Scratch-Version 8.3 Page#98) and the package had a slight different name in my source directory. Anyway, I just checked and the package names are the same both in the book and URL link (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...temd/wget-list). I must have downloaded an old version.