Chapter 5 - Installing GCC...
 

with the installation command we're meant to enter:

patch -Np1 -i ../gcc3.2.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../gcc3.2-nofixincludes-2.path && mkdir ../gcc-build && cd ../gcc-build && ../gcc-3.2/configure --prefix=/static

ill stop there...with this --prefix=/static, shouldn't this be --prefix=$lfs/static? otherwise gcc will try and install into the host distro's /static directory...wouldn't it?

just needing to know if i need to add $lfs or not, hopefully i can get a quick reply :)

;)

Read down the page a bit. That's straight off the Ch 5 GCC info/install page ;)

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ROFL! thanks for that MasterC! :) From now on I'll read a little bit down the page..:D

ha ha ha, ;) I've been there thinking that, otherwise I wouldn't have known :D

You're welcome, and have fun!

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Hmmmm, I've run into another problem:

I'm in chapter 6, and copying the kernel headers...i issue the commands it says, and im in the root of the directory tree (/) in the chroot environment...

when i issue them i get the error:
make : *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'. Stop.

i get the feeling im meant to be in some source code directory, but the manual doesn't state where?

The root of the kernel source is probably what it means. I'm not sure exactly where it's at so I can't take a peek to make sure. But yeah, it probably means the root of the kernel source, so:
/usr/src/sources/linux-2.4.20/
Is where you are meant to be.

That's my guess as this is sometimes referred to in some of the how-to's and is meant the kernel source's root

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Thanks for that.

Bloody hell, I've been installing everything fine up until now!! :(

Another problem:
Chapter 6: Installing Man-Pages

It says to just issue make install...but how can you do this when there is no makefile?!!

I've tried ./configure but it tells me to use it with ./configure -ask...is that right?

if i do that then i get questions like Do you have the nroff source for man pages? [Yes]

idk!! So i just select yes.

troff command to use [troff -mandoc]: ACK!!! I don't know! i just hit enter

then it spits out at me straight after i hit enter:
./configure: /static/bin/awk: No such file or directory
./configure: /test: =:unary operator expected
./configure: /static/bin/awk: No such file or directory

Ok...i think i'll stop there, because that shouldn't be happening....
how am i _meant_ to compile Man files? :cry:

Man files aren't compiled, they are simply text files copied over to a specific location.
So you change to the man-pages package:
make install

That's it. All make install does is copy the files to the directory necessary.

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btw, I'd unpack it again, just to make sure it's fresh and that you didn't mess anything up when you tried:
./configure

And other things.

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But when i issue just: make install from the /usr/src/sources/man-1.5k directory it gives me this error:
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
:cry:

Yeah, that's because you are in the wrong package ;)

It's man-pages-1.52

So:
/usr/src/sources/man-pages-1.52:
make install

;)

Unless of course you are here:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view...ter06/man.html

Which of course would have the directions listed on that page ;)

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ROFLMAO!

/me SLAPS SELF HARD!!!


Thank god your here to point out my stupid mistakes MasterC ::D

Thanks dude!

Ha ha ha, :D you're welcome ;)

Lets see if this one can be worked out too :)

Chapter 6 - Installing Glibc

I've patched it fine, I've ran ./configure --with-these-options fine...but when i issue make i get these errors:


/static/bin/gawk? what is it? i don't remember installing anything called gawk...or even any stages to install something called gawk...


Edit: I remember now installing Gawk....I did a search and it turns out there is a file in /static/bin/gawk...idk what make is complaining about?!

Ya got me! IDK either. Here's some tips though (glibc dorked me up too):

I think I went and installed GAWK at this point, it has no dependencies anyway.

Another, make sure you unpacked the linux-threads package in the glibc directory.

Also, see if you can poke around the mail-lists I think that's where I found my solution with my glibc problem(s).

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Would it 'pollute' my LFS system if i installed GAWK now? like would libraries get scattered throughout the LFS installation?

I wouldn't think so. You are going to be installing them anyway, it's not like they'd go somewhere they aren't supposed to and still work.

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ROFL!
Nice theory :)...I'll try installing gawk again, lets see how it goes after that :)

Edit: I think there is something wrong with the compiler in my LFS system...when i go into the gawk source directory and issue the install commands, i get:

Checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works....no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.


ummm, ACK!


I switched consoles and ive logged in under lfs and installing it with the compiler from slacky (the base distro)

you mean you've logged in as user LFS? You need to be root once you chroot in Chapter 6.

I wouldn't use the compiler from your source distro, simply for the fact that it's not the one that is for LFS. Also, if the compiler isn't working, there's gotta be a reason, and this reason might be big enough to work on.

Just some thoughts, obviously if it works, and you are happy, then who cares ;)

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what are the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS meant to be...i optimised them, but then they said to clear them for the installation of this, so i just went export CFLAGS= and export CXXFLAGS= ....maybe they need to be something other than blank?

also, i installed gawk as the lfs user, non-chrooted...so just like i did before...then i switched back into the terminal that was logged in thru root and was chrooted into /mnt/lfs...then i tried to install glibc again...this time i didn't get that error about gawk not existing...instead i get a more evil looking one :(, heh

could this possible be to do with the CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS not being set to correct values? if so, what are _default_ values?

edit: fixed up code tags

Whoa, that does look more evil. I am guessing it's not a gawk problem, but rather that's just where it faulted out at before. I'd re-unpack the source, re-apply the patches, re-unpack linuxthreads in the glibc directory, then try again.

Oh, and when I unset the values, I simply add 2 sets of double quotes:
CXXFLAGS=""

I don't know if that's correct, but it seems to work for me ;)

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Ok, now I'm REALLY confused...

Before i tried the last installation (that gave me those evil errors) i had removed the source dir and the build dir and tried again, yet hit those errors.

the only thing that i did differently is removed the patch also, and re-unpacked that and tried again, so far i've gotten to "make localedata/install-locales" without any problems, LMFAO

This is one of those strange things that happen just coz it wants to, lolz ;)

I think sometimes the source gets dorked. If you are using the same unpacked packages from CH5 in CH6, this might cause problems. It's suggested to re-unpack the packages once you get to CH6 to make sure they are clean again.

Sometimes, I have no idea why, but good things just happen ;)

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