Re: 5.7. Glibc-2.10.1

2010-03-01 Thread Suraj Linux
Hi, Thanks for the help. I guess the problem is because I had not installed GAWK-3.0 on my system. But now I have installed it.But I am not able to link /usr/bin/awk to gawk. How do I link it ? I was going through the host system requirements. I have one more question regarding diffutil . I chec

Re: Re: First Post: LFS 6.3 - Section 6.7.1 - gcc error

2010-03-01 Thread David Reese
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > David Reese wrote: >> Greetings from America, > > Greetings from Texas :) > >> [First, I apologize if this message is incorrectly formatted - >> since Thunderbird 3.0 text formatting options seem woefully >> limited. I did the best I could to manua

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread stosss
> On 2 March 2010 02:05, stosss wrote: > >> >> I have been building Gentoo lately, because I want to build a 64bit >> syytem with current source code and with a book already written for >> 64bit systems. I also want a package manager. I will continue with my >> LFS build and move to the 64bit book

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On 2 March 2010 02:05, stosss wrote: > > I have been building Gentoo lately, because I want to build a 64bit > syytem with current source code and with a book already written for > 64bit systems. I also want a package manager. I will continue with my > LFS build and move to the 64bit book when it

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread stosss
On Monday, March 1, 2010, brad martin wrote: > I think this is where a package management system comes into play.  In my > past LFS system I wrote a package manager using shell scripts much like the > one that Slackware uses (Sorry I no longer have it).  What my package manager > did was instal

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On 2 March 2010 00:04, Mike McCarty wrote: > It occurs to me that, since LFS is not exactly a supported > distribution in the classic sense of the term, that keeping > it up to date might be a bit interesting. What is the > recommended process? How does one know when, and what? > > Simply rebuildi

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread brad martin
I think this is where a package management system comes into play. In my past LFS system I wrote a package manager using shell scripts much like the one that Slackware uses (Sorry I no longer have it). What my package manager did was installed the software to a fakeroot and then tar-ed the files

Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread Mike McCarty
It occurs to me that, since LFS is not exactly a supported distribution in the classic sense of the term, that keeping it up to date might be a bit interesting. What is the recommended process? How does one know when, and what? Simply rebuilding each time there is a new release, especially when on

glibc-2.10.1 compilation failure

2010-03-01 Thread Jacob Todd
I'm currently stuck on section 5.7.1 of the book. I've configured glibc correctly afaik, and everything else has gone fine. After completing the configure stage (I didn't change any of the configure options from what's listed in the book), I run `make' and get the following error in [1]. The CFLA

Re: GCC 4.4.1 Pass 1 Make error

2010-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On 1 March 2010 22:01, wrote: > I am getting error when it tries to compile libgcc.  It say that it can > not determine object suffix.  Make stops with error.  Checking config.log > does have a error that may or may not be invovled but it is with /gcc/as: > line 77 exec:  : not found > > Brian >

LFS-6.6 is released

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.6. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5 (including updates to Linux-2.6.32.8, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the c

GCC 4.4.1 Pass 1 Make error

2010-03-01 Thread bclark
I am getting error when it tries to compile libgcc. It say that it can not determine object suffix. Make stops with error. Checking config.log does have a error that may or may not be invovled but it is with /gcc/as: line 77 exec: : not found Brian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/list

Re: radical mormons

2010-03-01 Thread Johnneylee Rollins
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Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread brown wrap
> Mike, I have done some research on this problem and its due > to a package > using a define that is not supposed to be used.  To > check if string.h is > really the problem, you only need to do: > > cat > t.c << "EOF" > #include > int main(){} > EOF > > gcc -o t t.c > > If that compiles,

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread brown wrap
> cat > t.c << "EOF" > #include > int main(){} > EOF > > gcc -o t t.c > > If that compiles, the problem is not string.h. > >    -- Bruce > It compiles: oot [ ~/test ]# cat > t.c << "EOF" > #include > int main(){} > EOF root [ ~/test ]# root [ ~/test ]# gcc -o t t.c root [ ~/test ]# ls -l to

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread Mike McCarty
brown wrap wrote: >> Have you tried doing a diff of the file in /usr/include and >> the >> one which comes "fresh" out of the tarball? >> >> Mike > I rewrapped this for you this time; however, please read http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette > I really don't know what happened, but B

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread brown wrap
> The safe answer is "everything". More likely is "nothing", > so > long as you are rebuilding identically the same version of > gcc. > > More realistically, I'd try looking at string.h and find > out > what happened to it. Without forensic information, it's > difficult > to say how to proceed. W

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread brown wrap
> Incidentally, this points up the need for doing backups, > even on > an incompletely built system. > > Mike I remembered I moved all of the compiled programs to a separate directory. I was able to go back and do another "make install" on glibc and then gcc. I was then able to make net-too

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: > brown wrap wrote: >> I have trouble compiling once I got into BLFS. I think I clobbered >> something during an install. Anything that tries to include: >> >> /usr/include/string.h won't compile. I figured out that file get >> installed from glibc, but gcc won't compile it. So

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: > brown wrap wrote: >> I have trouble compiling once I got into BLFS. I think I clobbered >> something during an install. Anything that tries to include: >> >> /usr/include/string.h won't compile. I figured out that file get >> installed from glibc, but gcc won't compile it. So

Re: Probably need to reinstall GCC

2010-03-01 Thread Mike McCarty
brown wrap wrote: > > I have trouble compiling once I got into BLFS. I think I clobbered > something during an install. Anything that tries to include: > > /usr/include/string.h won't compile. I figured out that file get > installed from glibc, but gcc won't compile it. So I need to backup > to a

Re: 5.7. Glibc-2.10.1

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On 01/03/10 08:49, Suraj Linux wrote: > Hi, > > I have getting error while executing *make* command for 5.7. Glibc-2.10.1. I > did give all the above command. I was even able to configure with out errors. > > I get the following error. ( See at the end ) > > mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19:

Re: 5.7. Glibc-2.10.1

2010-03-01 Thread Chris Staub
On 03/01/2010 03:49 AM, Suraj Linux wrote: > Hi, > > I have getting error while executing *make* command for 5.7. > Glibc-2.10.1. I did give all the above command. I was even able to > configure with out errors. > > I get the following error. ( See at the end ) > > mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: lin

5.7. Glibc-2.10.1

2010-03-01 Thread Suraj Linux
Hi, I have getting error while executing *make* command for 5.7. Glibc-2.10.1. I did give all the above command. I was even able to configure with out errors. I get the following error. ( See at the end ) mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ] mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.a

Re: 5.6. Linux-2.6.30.2 API Headers

2010-03-01 Thread Suraj Linux
Hi, Thank you for the help. I was able to find my problem. That is, I had extracted it as the different user. Hence I did not have access to the files. Thank you. -Suraj -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: Se