lfslivecd path to the book

mariogarcia · 07-31-2007, 06:55 PM

hello
I am wondering where is the book located in the lfslivecd?
i am at the stage 5.7 where I must adjust the toolchain. and the command

Code:

SPECFILE=`dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs &&
gcc -dumpspecs > $SPECFILE &&
sed 's@^/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' $SPECFILE > tempspecfile &&
mv -vf tempspecfile $SPECFILE &&
unset SPECFILE

is really causing me trouble. the book says I have to copy and paste. I am reading the book on my laptop running debian, I am building the lfs in another computer with the live cd as host. i do not know how to copy/paste the commands I always get errors in the sed part. the last one says : unterminated 's' command.

if i get the book on the cd, maybe i can figure out how to copy and paste the command. or how could I enable ssh so i can copy from the laptop to the computer where I am bulding.

thank you
Mario

hoes · 08-01-2007, 10:45 AM

The best way to execute a command is to know what it really does.
Then you can manipulate the command in a couple of ways.

The documentation is somewhere in the /usr directory if i'm right.
At startup you see a notice that tells you how to get some help with the lfs-live-cd.
That points out the location of the lfs-book.

Now I think of it try this:
At the commandline type startx
You now get a graphical interface.
In this interface rght-click and start fireweasel/firefox
This has the e-book as its startpage.

Trickie · 08-01-2007, 11:58 AM

You can always adjust the specfile by hand. All that sed is doing, I think, is adding /tools to the path /lib/ld-linux.so.2 to give /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2 each time it appears in the specfile. I think that it only appears once or twice in the file.

Richard

lukeiamyourfather · 08-01-2007, 12:44 PM

just type "greeting" at the terminal on the LiveCD and it should tell you where the book is.

mariogarcia · 08-04-2007, 09:11 PM

thank you i followed your suggestions, I am in chapter 6 now. i really don't understand however, what is a specfile.
another question I have is.
I want to have a perfect system; for this I want to have English language (us or uk) no problem but I want to have the belgian keyboard layout because I am used to that keyboard and I live in Belgium and I can't stand to have man pages in french or other operating system components in french because they translate like pigs.

hoes · 08-13-2007, 11:15 AM

It should be possible to get what you want: having a Belgian keyboard and english language. As far as I know those two things are not connected to each other. The keyboard is handled by the kbd package. The language of the man-page is controlled by the locale. Google both things, I reckon this will certainly show you what files to adjust. I think you should really get some more experience first. If you just type everything as mentioned in LFS you will end up with a neat system, but don't know what to do with it.
And a specfile is a file that tells gcc what options and commands to use to build a program. For example, it determines which libraries to use, which was supposed to be changed with the sed-command.