Dan Nicholson wrote: > yacc (bison) - Definitely needed since we patch the bash parse.y file > in Ch. 5 and yacc will need to be rerun. Could add bison to Ch. 5 > before bash, but IMO it's easier for the host to just install bison. > > yup. definitely easier, that was how I addressed the missing yacc with PCLinuxOS as build environment.
> bash - Not needed for actual building, but glibc's ldd and tzselect > need either bash or ksh to work. The values will be substituted at > configure time. I don't know what happens without them, and it's > probably not that important in Ch. 5 if those utilities aren't there. > However, we create the LFS user with /bin/bash as the login shell, and > this can't be substituted as is because we set up the environment > through the bash initialization files. > Yet another minor issue with PCLinuxOS as a build environment, the environment set up following the book is not a login shell. [ only mentioning it as a f.w.i.w. ] Jaqui -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
