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LFS is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.

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Old 06-11-2008, 11:09 AM   #16
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This should not be the show-stopper.

The header files that are needed are in LINUX/include/linux/* and LINUX/include/asm.
You can recursively copy the headers to where they are destined to go.
I do not know about the value of the many other headers of various directories in the kernel. Look them over, and if in doubt, save them as a tar file.

Then continue on your journey through LFS.

Ideally, the makefile in the kernel should be corrected to work correctly for each arch, so the same problem you encountered would no longer exist.

Gerald
 
Old 06-11-2008, 06:09 PM   #17
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Hi! It seems as if you may have solved this problem already (see quote below), but for others, if you are using ubuntu and you have this error you can do
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sudo apt-get install build-essentials
and this should fix the problem. I am a pretty big newb myself, and I'm not really sure what the package build-essentials contains, but I know it has something to do with compiling and the compiler and can fix alot of errors. hope that helps! Hail ubuntu!
Emery

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Originally Posted by smoochie View Post
Really weird, I started over and now I can't even prepare Binutils for compilation:

Code:
smoochie@smoochie-desktop:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$ sudo CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.17/configure \
>     --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gcc... gcc -B/usr/bin/
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -B/usr/bin/  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
Not sure why I keep hitting snags but at this rate I might be more successful writing my own OS from scratch :-/

Last edited by emdog4; 06-11-2008 at 06:11 PM.
 
Old 06-13-2008, 08:57 AM   #18
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Thank you everyone, it looks like I finally figured out the problem. Linux is case-sensitive, and some of the header files are in lower case when they should be in caps. The following commands should solve the problem:

Code:
cd $LFS/sources/linux-2.6.22.5/include/linux/netfilter
cp xt_connmark.h xt_CONNMARK.h
cp xt_dscp.h xt_DSCP.h
cp xt_mark.h xt_MARK.h
cp xt_tcpmss.h xt_TCPMSS.h

cd $LFS/sources/linux-2.6.22.5/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4
cp ipt_connmark.h ipt_CONNMARK.h
cp ipt_dscp.h ipt_DSCP.h
cp ipt_ecn.h ipt_ECN.h
cp ipt_mark.h ipt_MARK.h
cp ipt_tcpmss.h ipt_TCPMSS.h
cp ipt_tos.h ipt_TOS.h
cp ipt_ttl.h ipt_TTL.h

cd $LFS/sources/linux-2.6.22.5/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6
cp ip6t_hl.h ip6t_HL.h
cp ip6t_mark.h ip6t_MARK.h
 
Old 06-13-2008, 10:01 AM   #19
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Hmm, maybe I spoke too soon. Performing the very last command doesn't work because /tools/include doesn't exist:

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cp -rv dest/include/* /tools/include
And when I try to prepare Glibc for compilation in the very next step, it says the installed linux files (in usr/include/linux and usr/include/asm) are too old.
 
Old 06-13-2008, 11:26 AM   #20
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When building LFS, the builder needs to follow the LFS book EXACTLY, and if
an error occurs, or an unexpected result is obtained, stop, and figure out
why. Do not continue on. Post if you cannot figure it out quickly.

When /tools/include directory does not exist, create the directory, then retry the command.

You should have the linux-2.6.22.5(or newer) header files in the directory
/tools/include/{linux,asm}
Then, continuing on into glibc, run the command EXACTLY.
You would not get the message that /usr/include/linux headers are too old because you gave the headers to use as /tools/include

Gerald
 
  


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