-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure
> Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a book", it may be worthwhile to reconsider the "somewhat > arbitrary" host requirements, or at least point out that certain distros > may have the tools but they may not be invoked by default. Gentlemen, I really did not want to stir up a major debate. I am sorry if my little problems have caused and issue. I have the greatest respect for LFS and I really do see it as a true open source project where people can learn while doing. I did run into some little issues and if I were a tad more careful with that version check script then I never would have hit this. Maybe the question on the table here should be "what are the bare minimal requirements from which you can begin work?" I think that make and bison and flex etc etc can all be built if the user has at least GCC and some sort of running system. Am I wrong to think this way ? Dennis -- ------------------------------------------------ It's a good start... what you require at an absolute minimum is the "core toolchain" This being gcc, glibc, kernel headers, binutils. Those would get you compiling but it would be a pain without some of the more obvious tools we use a lot when compiling source. those would be make and related. The minimum version for the tools you need to "successfully" compile the core LFS system are in the book. For the making of make bison and flex... I would imagine it could be done without a version of make already installed but it would probably be a lot of work. I would guess it realy depends on how you start the job. Is this a cross-compile by chance? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
