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errors while compiling binutils 2.16.1

Hi, I am trying to build my own linux for the 1st time, but am stuck in the early stage itself...
I use Fedora core 6 as my host system, I am referring to the LFS book ver. 6.2 and am currently in
chapter 5.3

I get these errors when I do 'make -C ld LIB_PATH=/tools/lib' i.e., after make & make install....
This is what i get in the ending part of the output: -

Code:

/tools/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--hash-style=gnu'

/tools/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[2]: *** [ld-new] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/LFS/sources/binutils-build/ld'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/LFS/sources/binutils-build/ld'

make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/LFS/sources/binutils-build/ld'

What could be the problem? please help, hope I've given enough details

Hi,

Although I've never tried it myself, I've read that fedora is not a good choice as a base system.
Did you do the base system check (especially binutils, which holds the ld executable)?

Hope this helps.

I had checked the host sys requirements.... but there it said:
"Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than 2.16.1 are not recommended as they have not been tested)"

But im having binutils-2.17.5 I knew this before but thought of trying, now what should i do, is there a way to down-grade my binutils package?

Hi,

The best way to 'continue' (actually: start over) is to download and burn the LFS liveCD and use that as a base system (it's made for that purpose). You are in the early stages of setting up LFS, so starting over again shouldn't be that big an issue.

Hello !

In fact it's not difficult (and documented in the LFS stable errata) ...

You have to prefix the command given in the book for the "configure" part with CC="gcc -B/usr/bin" ... You'll have to do that with gcc-pass1 also ...

That's it ...

(the cause is that your host has binutils higher than 2.16.1 and it uses some parameters which are unknown to 2.16.1)