I'm getting this error during the make check.


Of course I already check to make sure the actual file is there. Any ideas?

Hi,

You say you are doing chapter 6.42, but I do see the following: /mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la.

$LFS (/mnt/lfs) isn't used any more once you start chapter 6 (from 6.4 - Entering the Chroot Environment onward) .

I'm not sure how that got in there and why it shows up this far into chapter 6, but that is the problem you need to solve.

Hope this helps.

really? thats odd.

well then I guess I'll just skip it and move on.

Hi,
Skip it? Don't you want to fix the problem?

I guess I'm misunderstanding the previous post. I thought it wasn't used anymore.

Hi,

I was talking about $LFS. It ($LFS) is used up to chapter 6.4. In chapter 6.4 you enter the chrooted environment, which eliminates the /mnt/lfs part.

Although I don't know how, I'm guessing you provided it yourself somewhere down the line. You either set and used LFS or provided /mnt/lfs by hand.

Hope this helps.

Whoops, my bad I must have configured it in the wrong terminal.

regardless I started get again from scratch. I'm still getting one error

I installed expat and I still run in to the same problems. I just did the default config for expat. Do I need to specify where the libraries are?

Arrrrggggg.....

So the expat libraries are in /usr/local/lib
I removed the build directory completely, re-extracted and used the following syntax for the config.

and I'm still getting the exact same error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi,

Expat isn't build in LFS. It is part of BLFS, but you do not need it to build LFS. Why did you decide to build it and how did you build it?

I never encountered this error myself while building LFS 6.8 (yes, I do run the tests). Are you sure you didn't make any typo's/mistakes in any of the previous steps/chapters?

Although I'm not sure what else you added/changed: If the expat/glade test error is the only error you get I would continue.

BTW: If you need to add/change the options given in the book then something is wrong. Either the package you are currently building didn't go as planned or on of the previous packages didn't.
Adding/changing stuff might solve the problem at hand, but it might also get you into trouble later on during the build!

Hope this helps.

I realize this is an old thread, but I happened to stumble upon it while I was looking for a solution to the same issue. Here's a quick and dirty fix to get around this error.

On the LFS system you should have no directories inside of the main /mnt directory. Since the compiler is looking for the path /mnt/lfs for some reason, we can fake that path via a symlink.

Execute -

This will create the symlink /mnt/lfs, which will point to the LFS system's actual root directory, which is what it is really expecting to find. I just tried this on my system and gettext is now happily compiling.

not only is this thread 4 years old no one should be using version 6.8 of the book.

While this issue was never solved, the thread is far too old to be relevant and not a lot of good information was captured. If you have a similar problem, start a new thread.

I'm posting here only to say that this doesn't really fix the problem in case someone else comes along here and tries this. After obviously missing a step myself, I encountered a similar error and tried this fix - while I was able to successfully complete the LFS build, I had issues later on when attempting to compile some other applications which were dependent on gettext. I managed to resolve them by remaking gettext and reinstalling it, but since I am unsure if there are other any other subtle issues that might crop up, I went back to my backup and started again. So, if you come across this post - while this fix may get you through the LFS build, if you plan on doing further other issues will crop up, step back and try again.