Hello guys!
I am building LFS 7.7, my host is Ubuntu and when running the make command I get the following error:

GNUmakefile:43: /maint.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/maint.mk'. Stop.

Please help!!

Thanks in advance.

Please give more info, what chaptr you are on what version of LFS you ausing, what is the output of the version.sh script

Version check script result :
bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release
/bin/sh -> /bin/dash
Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24
bison (GNU Bison) 3.0.2
/usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc
bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
Coreutils: 8.21
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.3
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
GNU Awk 4.0.1
/usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 4.8.4
g++ (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 4.8.4
(Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.6) 2.19
grep (GNU grep) 2.16
gzip 1.6
Linux version 3.13.0-55-generic (buildd@brownie) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #94-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 00:27:10 UTC 2015
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17
GNU Make 3.81
GNU patch 2.7.1
Perl version='5.18.2';
sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.2
xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha
g++ compilation OK



I am currently on 5th chapter coreutils package installation. I did a reboot but then things started going wrong with make command.

Check your version.sh output it contains errors fix these first then try again from scratch
This is all covered in the book, the bit about making your host system complient, please rad the documentation before reporting errors.

Sir, I had already finished the installation of following packages successfully :

Binutils-2.25 - Pass 1
GCC-4.9.2 - Pass 1
Linux-3.19 API Headers
Glibc-2.21
Libstdc++-4.9.2
Binutils-2.25 - Pass 2
GCC-4.9.2 - Pass 2
Tcl-8.6.3
Expect-5.45
DejaGNU-1.5.2
Check-0.9.14
Ncurses-5.9
Bash-4.3.30
Bzip2-1.0.6

But after this, did a reboot and then make command did not work for coreutils and other packages. I read the host system prerequisites carefully and then only proceeded further.

Thanks

you NEED to make your system complient otherwise it will NOT work after doing so you may be able to continue but you will probably have a messed up system so start from scratch, you are only at building the tool chain.

Hey Keith thanks!!
Starting from scratch solved the issue. I think the reboot messed something up.

Best to build the tool chain all in one go to make sure nothing weird happens with the environment.

You never should use dash shell when building a cross-compiler like the Chapter 5 Toolchain. Only use Bash.

Thnaks Keith, ReaperX7, will keep that in mind.