Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 06:03:19AM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> MBW wrote:
>>>
>>> 1) What version of LFS are you building?
>>> 2) Have you deviated from the book (even in the slightest bit)?
>>
>> No I did not. That is why I am so suprised in getting this
>> error. I am not going by 6.8 but by the next upcoming version of LFS
>> because there was a wget list there to download exactly what I
>> needed. I am only using what is on that list.
>>
> The development book might be broken, that is its nature. It is
> certainly less tested than a release.
>
> Sometimes, trivial differences in hardware or the host kernel can
> cause problems that only a very few people ever experience. This
> can also happen with releases, but the odds should be better.
>
> Your previous posts suggest you have experience, but it is not
> current [ specifically, you mentioned 2.4 kernel headers - LFS has
> been on 2.6 for *many* years, and a great many things about how we
> build have changed in that time ]. As package versions change, you
> need to refresh your experience - I've been out of active
> development for some months now, and I know that areas of my
> knowledge are now suspect.
>
> As a bystander, I have the impression you are taking some of the
> advice people have given you, but ignoring other advice. Often, the
> important advice for solving a problem comes in small pieces, from
> several different people.
>
> Respectfully, I suggest that you use a released version of the book
> at the moment, and do not make changes.
>
> When you have successfully built a recent system, plus enough other
> packages to make it useful to you, feel free to change whatever you
> wish - but try to change only small parts at one time, so that you
> can more easily debug the breakages which will happen.
Sounds like a plan. The thing is there is no wget list for the crueent
release 6.8 that I can see. I might have to download the required packages
one by one.
Bill
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