i don't know what is the fate for me

i am fed up

i tried a lot of time but my glibc fails for one or the other reason in chapter 6

initially it failed for cpp sanity check but i did
touch /usr/include/assert.h
as the answer to one of th equestions was and it worked fine

but now in make phase it fails saying
------------------------------------------------------------------
........ld:/usr/src/glibc-build/libc.so.lds
libc.so.lds 108 arse error

ld returned exit status 1
------------------------------------------------------------------
i looked at that line in that file and found something like
---------------
KEEP(*(EXCLUDE_FIL(............and some file

----------------------------
when i do
ld libc.so.lds

it gives the same parse error and gets exit

i don't know whats the problem

probably the problem is of ncurses

can anybody tell me how to install ncurses statically in chapter 5

i tried in chap 6 before glibc but it says
c ompiler could not create executables and exits configure phase

LFS:4.1
glibc-2.3.2
binutils-2.14
gcc-3.3
host: redhat 8.0

Is there a specific reason you need glibc2.3.2 or gcc 3.3?? The LFS FAQ mentions that gcc 3.3 is definitely known to cause problems. I don't know about glibc2.3.2, but you're obviously trying to compile it with gcc 3.3, and that may be part of the problem.

If you must have those versions, then I'm not sure many folks here can help out. I've built many LFS systems, but they were always by-the-book. I think that's how most folks in this forum do their installs. One option might be to install as the book suggests, and then try to install gcc 3.3 after that. I'm not sure how you would install glibc2.3.2 though.

It took me a couple of goes to install glibc-2.3.2 and gcc-3.3.1, problems generally being typos on my part. If you must use these versions, then follow the instructions in the latest (CVS) version of the book.

However, I can install it successfully using either Red Hat 9 or 7.2 as the host system (I like to experiment...)

Make sure you've passed

make configure-host

when you're installing binutils-2.14 otherwise that won't work. Also, if you're trying to install glibc-2.3.2 using gcc-3.3.1, you must patch glibc - patch is available from lfs - otherwise compile will fail. Using gcc-3.2 (actually the recommended compiler for glibc-2.3.2) shouldn't give this problem.

Finally, and this is where I went wrong, pay CAREFUL attention to the procedure for adjusting the toolchain in both chapters. The book suggests cut-n-paste rather than typing the commands in, and for good reason IMHO.