>It's a pity that this thread went this way. The sh->bash link is one of the
>mildest requirement of the hostreqs. I have built LFS a lot of times with >/bin/sh->dash on Debian. >What I think the original poster is missing is a bunch of libxxx-dev packages, >because a normal Unbuntu installation does not have them. But since he did not >send the error he was getting, it is hard to help more. I have built LFS on >Ubuntu 12.10, but I am sorry I have not taken a note of what I had to install. >At least libc6-dev, libncuses5-dev, and surely others. The hostreqs page do >not test their presence (actually, those packages contain mainly the >headerfiles *.h). >Regards >Pierre I used a custom ubuntu 12.04 live cd to build LFS, though I understand we're talking about 12.10 here, the detail I'm noting is this: the make dependencies weren't in the LiveCD system by default so I had to put them in manually. While creating the Live CD, you enter a chroot environment to make sure everything is in place properly... run "apt-get install build-essential" while inside, and you'll get all of the necessary -dev packages... don't forget the other items inidcated by the hostreqs page, of course. Regards. Nick. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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