On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 09:48:41AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I think we have corner case here. The only system that is a problem is > 7.1 without libtirpc being installed (or someone who didn't follow the > book). Now that I think of it, we could add to the host system > requirements a check for /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h and if it doesn't exist > just untar the glibc tarball and copy the header files from there to the > host. I doubt that they've changed and in that case they are not being > used by anything else even if they have changed. > > tar -xf glibc-2.16.0.tar.xz > su -c 'cp glibc-2.16.0/sunrpc/rpc/*.h /usr/include/rpc' > rm -r glibc-2.16.0 > > For this rare corner case, that's the minimum needed. > > -- Bruce
I tend to agree, but people who have built a recent LFS will probably not notice that change to the host requirements - perhaps we need to swallow our pride and point out that it is our own users who might need to do this ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
