LFS install trouble -- using Knoppix 3.6 as host

hell_carnage · 11-17-2004, 01:38 PM

Greetings! I am trying to boot from a Knoppix 3.6 CD and install LFS 5.1.1. I am getting the following error when trying to compile gcc:

Code:

lfs@ttyp0[gcc-build]$ ../gcc-3.3.3/configure --prefix=/tools --with-local-prefix=/tools --disable-nls --enable-shared --enable-languages=c
Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
Created "Makefile" in /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build using "mt-frag"
/tools/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--as-needed'
/tools/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** The command 'gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.

I am at a loss as to how to fix this. I'm thinking I need an earlier version of Knoppix that uses the 2.4 kernel, but I just wanted to ask here before I do that and find out it was a waste of time.

XavierP · 11-17-2004, 02:50 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux From Scratch and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

95se · 11-17-2004, 09:10 PM

Quote:

/tools/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--as-needed'

ld is telling you that it doesn't recognize the --as-needed flag. This is recently new addition to ld so the one your using may not support it. My slackware's ld doesn't support it (or atleast doesn't mention it in the man pages), but lfs's ld does. You may just have to update to a new version of binutils (in your /tools), or make sure you compiled yours with the proper flags. . It appears my ld does support it, but I am also following the unstable (6.1) version of LFS. Not sure if this will work, but if your still working from your host system you can try unsetting LDFLAGS as well (unset LDFLAGS).

Andrew Benton · 11-18-2004, 07:09 AM

That's right, the --as-needed function wasn't in binutils-2.1.4 which you're trying to build for dear old LFS-5.1. The solution is to build LFS-6