Hi all,

as a way to become more familiar with linux and terminal im wokring through LFS 7.6. I'm currently having a problem with binutils pass2, section 5.9 of LFS.

My file system on my drive is as follows:

/mnt/lfs/sources
/mnt/lfs/binutils-build
/mnt/lfs/binutils-2.24

After preparing for compilation, I'm hitting problems with the make procedure and getting the following output at the end:

checking size of char... 0
checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type, please report a bug
make[1]: *** [configure-bfd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/binutils-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2





when trying to run make install I get:

make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/binutils-build'
/bin/sh ../binutils-2.24/mkinstalldirs /tools /tools
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/binutils-build/bfd'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/binutils-build/bfd'
make[1]: *** [install-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/binutils-build'
make: *** [install] Error 2



Would really appreciate any help as I've gone back twice and started from scratch but keep hitting the same problems...

Why do you have /mnt/lfs/binutils-build and not /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build
And the same for binutils-2.24

everything should be within /mnt/lfs/sources

Starting from sources foreach package as 5.3 states, the first two lines ot be executed in terminal are:

mkdir -v ../binutils-build
cd ../binutils-build


which creates the folder in /mnt/lfs, not sources. I assumed that this was correct and moved binutils-2.24 from the sources folder to /mnt/lfs/ in order for the compilation instructions to run through.

I'm guessing the above is a typo in the instructions and should be:

mkdir -v ./binutils-build
cd ./binutils-build

Hi

No thats not quite correct, Chapter 5.3 last important note,
Untar tarball cd into untared dir, "binutils-2.24" follow book.
So that would put you in /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.24 then instructions in book. You must have done it this way preivous packages, If your not sure how you did the packages before I would do them again

FYI
If configure or make fail it's not worth running make install.

Thanks, I did it that other way for all the other packages, the instructions online for binutils just threw me a bit I guess. Will try it from inside /sources/ and post back shortly

after chaning the directorys as above, im still encountering a problem with make. The config runs through fine, but make is still giving the below error:

checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type, please report a bug
make[1]: *** [configure-bfd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2



Any help appreciated.

Hi

Well i would like to think that your host passed
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/.../hostreqs.html version-script

And that you removed the previuos binutils dirs as you redid that part.
Something must of gone wrong in previous packages.

After doing some further googling, i think the fault is from the GCC package not including some of the .h files. Going to try and re-install again and see where i get

Solved, problem was with the GCC package.