Hi all,

I was on the right way building my lfs system, when an unexpectedly error occurred. I am now in chapter 6.22 "Perl-5.8.8" and I use a live cd as the host system. I compile the package according to the book's instruction (6.2 version) but when I type the 'make' command, the output I get is this:

Can somebody tell me what goes wrong? I've double and triple-checked my commands, and it seems that I've done everything right. Plz somebody help me.

Thanx

not much goin on here today...

Hi,

Never seen this error before, but a quick google search (!!!!) shows that a wrong/missing LC_ALL / LANG variable could be the cause.
What happens if you set the LC_ALL and/or the LANG variable to C (export LC_ALL=C / export LANG=C)

BTW: if you are in chapter 6 then the liveCD isn't your host any more. By now you are using the temporary environment you build in chapter 5. As described in Chapter 1. Introduction

Another thing: not much goin on here today... bumping an article after only 35 minutes is considered to be rude You also decrease the amount of people that will check out your thread. LQ has system in place that rotates zero reply threads to the top of the list. But this is only done for threads with zero replies.

Anyway, hope this helps.

ups, sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. I wasn't aware of this rule, sry!!! Thanx for the help and I hope that this will work too! I'm gonna try it now, comin back with more comments about what happened. Sooorrryyyy again!

And about the live CD: What do you mean it's not my host sytem? I need to insert the cd every time to start building the lfs. Or there's another way that the live cd is not needed?
Thanx

Hi,

You do need the liveCD to get started, but......

When you build a temporary environment (chapter 5) the tools/programs used to build that environment are on the liveCD (in your case, it can also be any other base system that meets the requirements).

Chapter 6 builds the actual LFS. Chapter 6 only uses the tools/programs from your temporary environment (chapter 5) to build the end product. That's the reason you have to re-enter the chrooted environment (that what was build in chapter 5) every time you stop and (re)start working on chapter 6.

Maybe I misunderstood what you said in your first post, but I got the idea that this was not known to you.

Hope this clears things up a bit (and sorry If I confused you).

Hi druuna.
No, actually your last post made things clear. The problem is that I tried the LC_ALL and LANG solution and it didn't seem to work. I entered in the sources directory (after having typed all the commands to start the lfs building again) and after the "chroot" command i did the two "export" commands. Then I re-compiled the package but I still get the same problems... It's just a waste if I give up now. Have I done all these for nothing?

Hi,

It looks like something is wrong. Without knowing what you did/didn't do and how you did those things it's hard to point to the cause.

The first time I installed LFS (version 5.0) I had to start over twice before everything was ok. Both failures were caused by me (I skipped a packet and misunderstood/mis-read a section). I did learn a lot from my mistakes and all that I had done to get LFS up and running.

If you are sure that you did not make any mistakes in chapter 5 you could decide to redo all of chapter 6. I personally would start from scratch again (you cannot be 100% sure that chapter 5 was done correctly and you've had some problems before). If you do that (redo all of chap 6) it would be a good idea to remove all that has been done already (after entering the chrooted env in chap 6.4, remove all directories/files present).

Not what you wanted to hear/read, but if you want a trusted and working LFS you should probably start over again. The only thing you could double check is the way you set up your environment after stopping/starting chapter 6 (take another look at the hint I pointed out in one of your previous threads).

thanx, i've solved this problem (just reconfigured the package and !!it worked!!). Now I'm at less package and the configure fails... I'll create another topic for this! thanx

I have same problem, but exporting LC_ALL=C and LANG=C won't help, meybe someone have any other tips?

have you tried re-configuring the package after exporting LC_ALL and LANG? that's what I did and it worked. First I tried to run the make command without compiling again, but I had to shut down my pc. So the next day I re-compiled the package and it worked!

Yes I tried it. I'm compiling it on my old slackware where some utilities was recompiled, and on it I have same problem so I think it is problem with some other program but I don't know which is broken.