William Tracy wrote: > Hello, > > First, I would like to congratulate the LFS team on the 7.0 rc. Good job, > people. :-) > > I'm working through a build right now. I screwed up on the original build of > glibc, but did not notice until running the test listed in section 5.8 of > the book. > > I went back, wiped my glibc build directory, and tried to rebuild from > scratch. When I issued 'make', the build entered an infinite loop. It took > me a day and a half to realize this. >_< > > After much digging around, I found a source online that suggested that this > would happen if the glibc headers were already present under > $PREFIX/include. I moved /tools/include to /tools/include-old, copied the > kernel headers back to /tools/include, and now the build seems to be > proceeding normally. > > Obviously, this was caused by a mistake on my part, but it seems like an > easy enough mistake to make, and the result is not intuitive to debug. > > So, can I suggest adding a bullet point to the book addressing this > potential trap?
This seems odd. I haven't tried rebuilding using Chapter 5 procedures, but I've certainly rebuilt from a standard LFS system without problems. Moving /tools/include would also move the kernel headers so you would need to back up and reinstall at least those. In cases like these, especially for those only a few steps into Chapter 5, we usually say that you should wipe everything and just start over. Can you give us a pointer to the online source you are referring to? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
