Everything has gone pretty good building the lfs 6.3 system so far but when I get to chapter 6:9 I think, it is when having to rebuild Glibc when I go to the ./configure part it just goes into a loop.Can I use a different version of Glibc or is that too much trouble.It is Glibc 2.5.1 or the problem might be with the Glibc-libidn 2.5.1 I don't know.

Ah, you're using 6.3. That explains you referring to the "Changing Ownership" section as 5.31 in your previous thread. LFS 6.4 has a few extra sections in Chapter 5, which is why I thought you meant 5.34.

Anyway... I haven't encountered the problem you mention before. I tried to do some searching around to see if maybe others have experienced it, but I think I need more information. Can you paste the log of what's happening? Or part of the log, at least. And is it actually occurring during the configuration stage, not during make?

Yeah, it happens when I try to configure it . I couldn't get a good copy of it cause it is scrolling by so fast but here is what I could get

./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.libeno: line 24 : /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 65: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 73: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory
./configure.lineno: line 139: /dev/null: No such file or directory


and it just keeps going over and over.

I just noticed at section 6.2.2 mounting and populating /dev
mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev

this is the response I get

mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev
/dev on /dev type none (rw,bind)

is this normal?

I figured out the problem with the loop it was a corrupt libidn directory in glibc-2.51 I deleted the glibc-build and the libidn directory inside glibc and then reinstalled it, it let me configure and run make but now I get this error on running the test

make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.5.1'
make: *** [check] Error 2
root:/sources/glibc-build# grep Error glibc-check-log
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/posix/wordexp-test.out] Error 1
make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored)
make[1]: *** [posix/tests] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-attr3.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-cancel1.out] Error 1
make[1]: *** [nptl/tests] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/debug/tst-chk3.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/debug/tst-lfschk3.out] Error 1
make[1]: *** [debug/tests] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/c++-types-check.out] Error 1
make: *** [check] Error 2
root:/sources/glibc-build#

can't find anything in the log file

Mounting /dev should have output something like "/dev on /mnt/lfs/dev" for the first part. (That's why you got all those "/dev/null: No such file or directory" messages during configure.) Did you make sure the $LFS environment variable was properly set?

Some of those Glibc issues are to be expected, as it states in 6.9; personally, I would start over with chapter 6, making sure that /dev is correctly mounted as I mentioned above.

I got past that and have been stuck on section 6.15(e2fsprogs) I have looked for 4 hours on goole trying to figure the thing out
Makefile:361: *** multiple target patterns. Stop

Can you paste line 361 of the Makefile here? And maybe a few lines before and after for context.

This is all that it shows

root:/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build# make
make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[1]: `lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[1]: `lib/blkid/blkid_types.h' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[1]: `lib/uuid/uuid_types.h' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make libs
make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: `lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: `lib/blkid/blkid_types.h' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make[2]: `lib/uuid/uuid_types.h' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
making all in lib/et
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build/lib/et'
Makefile:361: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build/lib/et'
make[1]: *** [all-libs-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I meant from the Makefile itself, not the output of make. (Makefile:361 refers to line 361 of the named file.)

What do you get from the following?

I can't read the makefile it want let me . Everything went preety much flawless up til now lol. I've deleted it retried several times with the same message I could get into the make .ini file here is line 361-370

all-libs-recursive install-libs-recursive install-strip-libs-recursive \
uninstall-libs-recursive install-shlibs-libs-recursive \
install-shlibs-strip-libs-recursive uninstall-shlibs-libs-recursive:
@for subdir in $(LIB_SUBDIRS); do \
if test -d $$subdir ; then \
target=`echo $@|$(SED) 's/-libs-recursive//'`; \
echo making $$target in $$subdir; \
(cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $$target) || exit 1; \
fi ; \
done

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant the Makefile in the folder where make stopped, in this case "/sources/e2fsprogs-1.40.2/build/lib/et"

Actually, just for the heck of it, do me a favor: delete the e2fsprogs-1.40.2 directory and start with a freshly extracted tarball, then enter "make clean" after the configure step before you run make. Do you still get the same error?

Also, from within the chroot, what's the output of "ls /dev"?

It seems like I'm going to have to start all over. I turned my pc off lastnight and now I have nothing on my $LFS partition. This time I'm going to use the livecd as a working host.

Nothing? As in, literally nothing? That seems very odd... though considering the errors you were getting, starting over may be the best option anyway. Out of curiosity, what were you using as a host?

I'm using Linuxmint 6 would rather have Ubuntu but linuxmint runs faster for me. I bought a used computer just so I could mess around with and get used to linux a little more and figured doing lfs was a good place to start learning.