On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Karl McClendon <karl_stri...@yahoo.com> wrote: > One such issue is when building glibc. It fails quickly with awk script > errors. After some hunting I learned that Ubuntu does not come with gawk, it > comes with mawk, which is the reason for the error. After installing gawk > the build completed successfully. > > I'm not sure if you want to clutter lfs with every little host related error, > but a small side page on how to set up certain popular distributions for > building lfs would be nice.
I think that what you are asking for is already there... Gawk is listed as one of the requirements in Preface -> Host System Requirements. If you had run the version-check.sh script as suggested in that page, you would have discovered that you had to install gawk befor starting with the build... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
