Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:05:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Well I built gcc-4.5.2 with a gcc-3.4.6 compiler. I can rebuild
>> it with a gcc-4.6.1 compiler I have tucked away. My linux system is
>> old I know but I use some pretty up to date development tools
>> including binutils-2.21.1.
>>
> In that case, the old versions are probably *not* the problem.
> You're hitting lots of problems, but we're having to guess because
> you didn't tell us that you'd added recent gcc and binutils.
>
> Gcc-4.5.2 should be perfectly good enough. I'm not sure which
> version of binutils you are installing in LFS, but using a *newer*
> binutils (or gcc, or even glibc) on the host system has been known
> to cause problems in the past. For the moment, I doubt it is the
> root cause of this failure.
>
> Please look at the other possible problems I mentioned : if you
> have followed the book's instructions with a recent toolchain,
> cpuid.h should have been installed somewhere. Again, you *appear*
> to be jumping onto the suggestions which you think are likely to be
> most helpful, and not taking time to consider the whole range of
> suggestions that are offered.
>
> I don't know how many people have built 6.8, but I still have the
> impression that your problems are down to errors in what you are
> doing, or problems with your host system. You never confirmed that
> your system meets the known requirements - we're trying to read
> between the lines, and some of the ideas we come up with may be
> inappropriate because we don't understand what you are running.
>
> One thing that you haven't yet stated explicitly: are you using a
> recent 2.6 kernel ?
On my host system? Oh no. The kernel that comes with RH9. 2.4.20-6. A
redhat version of a 2.4 kernel. I would just install the latest gentoo but
it's about as difficult if not more so than lfs. I have the minimal ISO and
have to go online and download a couple of files and use nano. RH9 comes
with pico the older version of nano. If I could just get a gentoo up and
running with a C development environment I might be able to go ahead and
build the lfs. But gentoo is another "lfs like" system. A learning
experience for sure though.
Bill
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