On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:36:41PM +0200, hans kaper wrote: > Op Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:38:11 +0200 schreef Ken Moffat > <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>: > > > > > Odd. I don't see that in mine. Perhaps your perl tarball became > > corrupted. Does its md5sum match the book ? > > I just checked that: yes, the md5sum matches. >
As a *user* on your current system (not as user lfs, not with /tools in the PATH), you could try building perl with the instructions in chapter 5 and then run 'make DESTDIR=/home/myname/PERL' install and compare what gets installed to what was in /tools. > > It looks as if your build of perl in chapter 5 was incomplete. If > > the perl tarball wasn't damaged, something odd is going on. > > Anything "uncommon" about your host system, or the machine itself ? > > I'm struggling to get a grip on this ;) > > I scrupulously checked the commands between the book and the scriptfile I > use, > but they match exactly. > Ah, scripting. That is good, but from time to time there are all manner of weird and wonderful problems caused by setting variables which happen to also get used in the build of a particular package. (e.g. openssl uses $SCRIPTS). I'm not aware of any in perl, but that probably only means that the coders used different variable names from those I use. > My host system is quite normal, although a bit old: Dell dimension-8300, > cpu Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz, 32 bits, memory 2560MiB. I am > building > lfs on a external usb diskdrive on which I built lfs 6.4 succesfully a > few years ago. Anything unusual about the host _distro_ ? I assume you've already checked the host requirements, and problems (dash, if still a problem, awk, yacc) usually show up well before chapter 6 coreutils. > > I think I will try to use Perl-5.16.2 instead of 5.16.1. They will not > differ that much. 5.16.2 is in LFS-7.3. AFAICS, the only change in the instructions is the directory name. > If that fails, I think I will start "from scratch" with LFS 7.3. Changing > my scriptfiles > to the latest version is not that much work. But that will not be today. > > Anyway, I am very grateful for your efforts to solve the problem. > > Hans Good luck, whichever approach you take. If anything does show up, please let the list know in case soembody else gets a similar problem in the future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
