Ken Moffat wrote: > After a long absence on other architectures, I'm trying to get back > into LFS itself. I've got 2006-12-09 working nicely on two boxes > (modulo unrelated kernel issues), so now I'm trying to run an > in-place install so that I can see if farce shows anything useful. > > All headers in /usr/include are blown away by > 'make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install' which has "unfortunate" > results on glibc (thinks I'm building for i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 and > then barfs when testing cpp because limits.h is now missing). This > is caused by > > headers_install: include/linux/version.h scripts_basic FORCE > @if [ ! -r include/asm-$(ARCH)/Kbuild ]; then \ > echo '*** Error: Headers not exportable for this architecture > ($(ARCH))'; \ > exit 1 ; fi > $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts scripts/unifdef > $(Q)rm -rf $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/include > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > $(Q)$(MAKE) -rR -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.headersinst obj=include > > Still, I guess it probably isn't that important ;-) OTOH, after > all the effort people went to last year, we should probably sed it > out, something like > > sed -i '/^.*Q.rm -rf.*INSTALL_HDR_PATH.*$/d' Makefile > > looks as if it will do the job (it definitely takes the line out, > but I haven't tested it). I would appreciate help with explaining > _why_ the book should include this, when it only benefits people > running ICA, and potentially assists people stupid enough to update > the kernel headers in-place on a running system. Any thoughts ?
I don't think it sounds like it is appropriate for the book. OTOH, if the book had wiki entries like BLFS, I think that would be an ideal place to place the discussion of ICA issues. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
