Confusing "Note" on "8.3. Linux-2.6.11.12" page

Highly esteemed gurus, The "8.3. Linux-2.6.11.12" page, LFS-BOOK-6.1-pre1-HTML/chapter08/kernel.html, contains two "Note" sections. The first of these seems to me as though it might be obsolete. The first thing it encouraged me to do was be sure to enable the "Support for hot-pluggable devic

Tiny typo to fix in "7.9. The Bash Shell Startup Files"

Esteemed LFS gurus, You might want to fix a tiny typo on the " 7.9. The Bash Shell Startup Files" page, LFS-BOOK-6.1-pre1-HTML/chapter07/profile.html There is a place 2/3 of the way down the page that reads " This results in in a final locale setting of ..." You probably only want one of tho

Small error in the emacs section (BLFS Chapter6, sect 2)

In BLFS, Chap6, sec2, " Emacs-21.4a," which I access as http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/emacs.html under "Short Descriptions" you list "b2m" twice, with different descriptions. I'm reasonably certain that the second one wants to be "ctags" instead. Thanks for all your incre

Building LFS-6.1pre1 on Ubuntu, Chap6 glibc test had a failure

I'm building LFS 6.1 pre 1 using Ubuntu as the host system. Everything has gone well up through the early parts of Chapter 6. I've built glibc and then run # make check It aborted most of the way through, and the last output file it seemed to have written was /sources/glibc-build/rt/tst-timer4.o

Please mention prerequisites: bison & flex

Being unable to build LFS6.1 on my FC4 system because of the gcc4 problem, I installed a minimal ubuntu distribution. When I tried building binutils, I ran into the problem of the nonexistence of "yyparse." I had to hunt around on the web a bit, and I finally found somebody who had the same probl

Failure when building /binutils (Chapter 5 on FC4 with gcc4)

I tried to slavishly follow your directions. I was doing the initial compile of binutils. Everything went swimmingly for 105 seconds, then I got: make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/gas' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/gas -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I../

6.1-pre1 recommends shadow 4.0.9, which seems missing

The 6.1-pre1 book's package list, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1-pre1/chapter03/packages.html recommends downloading Shadow (4.0.9) - 996 KB: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/ but ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/ lists only shadow-4.0.10.tar.bz2 1021 KB 06