newbie facing some ambiguities

ahmed_alzahrani · 08-30-2004, 03:59 PM

hi there

concerning the folders hierarchy, when the book says to build some temporary folders (ie. mkdir glibc-build) where exactly am i going to make those folders? under what folder on which partition?

on chapter 5 when i execute
ln -s gcc $LFS/tools/bin/cc. Am I referring to the host gcc or to the newly made gcc (the one in /tools/bin/ )?

because when I started to ./configure Glibc it said that i need to build it in another directory. (even though i did extract it in /mnt/lfs/glibc-build)

hellllllp

320mb · 08-30-2004, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by ahmed_alzahrani
hi there

concerning the folders hierarchy, when the book says to build some temporary folders (ie. mkdir glibc-build) where exactly am i going to make those folders? under what folder on which partition?

in your /mnt/lfs directory.....
everything you do is going to be in /mnt/lfs

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on chapter 5 when i execute
ln -s gcc $LFS/tools/bin/cc. Am I referring to the host gcc or to the newly made gcc (the one in /tools/bin/ )?

the newly made one in /tools/bin

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because when I started to ./configure Glibc it said that i need to build it in another directory. (even though i did extract it in /mnt/lfs/glibc-build)

you extract the tarball to it's own directory and make a seperate one to build in.............so you need to move the glibc directory out of the glibc-build

you will extract all tarballs to their own directories...........gcc and glibc are the only packages that will build outside of their source.......IE
make seperate gcc-build and glibc-build.

ahmed_alzahrani · 08-30-2004, 04:34 PM

i'm sorry but regarding the last two line

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you extract the tarball to it's own directory

tar -xjvf /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.3.3-lfs-5.1.tar.bz2
or is it
tar -xjvf /mnt/lfs/glibc-build/glibc-2.3.3-lfs-5.1.tar.bz2 ?

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and make a seperate one to build in

you mean
mkdir /mnt/lfs/somedire/
cp -r /mnt/lfs/glibc-build/* /mnt/lfs/somedire/
cd /mnt/lfs/somedire/
./configure glibc

sorry for being a

Cerbere · 08-31-2004, 06:15 AM

Check out this thread. Another user was asking a similar question regarding the ../binutils-build directory (that's one more that needs it, 320mb ;-)

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Not now, John! · 08-31-2004, 04:57 PM

It was said at the begining of the book.
For example, your working folder is $LFS/sources. That's the folder where you untar all your tarballs needed to be installed.
When you untar some tarball you should move to the folder that's just been created (for example $LFS/sources/vim-xx). Then you begin to read the chapter concerning the package.

So, in the book it says "mkdir ../binutils-build".
You are supposed to be in $LFS/sources/binutils-xx.
Executing the "mkdir ../binutils-build" creates "binutils-build" folder under $LFS/sources.

ahmed_alzahrani · 08-31-2004, 09:59 PM

thank you gentelmen
everything's going smoothly.

saxophobe · 11-26-2004, 11:43 AM

Hi all!

I am also a newbie with LFS and am having some knowledge gaps in my linux education.

The difficulties I am having are with the glibc-2.3.3 install:

First, I untarred in the /mnt/lfs/sources directory, then moved the glibc-2.3.3 directory to the newly created /mnt/lfs/gblic-build directory

Then, I cd'd into the glibc-build directory and applied the following command as the book states:

Code:

./configure --prefix=/tools \
    --disable-profile --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads \
    --with-binutils=/tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include \
    --without-gd --without-cvs

When I do this, I get the following result:

Code:

bash:  ./configure: No such file or directory

When I try moving to the /mnt/lfs/glibc-build/glibc-2.3.3 directory, I get the following result"

Code:

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

My question is this; I thought I was in the separate build directory? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks to all who answer the questions seriously, and don't bother answering if all you want to do is poke fun at a newbie. Believe me, I've heard them all.

sax

Andrew Benton · 11-26-2004, 05:23 PM

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Originally posted by saxophobe
Hi all!

I am also a newbie with LFS and am having some knowledge gaps in my linux education.

The difficulties I am having are with the glibc-2.3.3 install:

First, I untarred in the /mnt/lfs/sources directory, then moved the glibc-2.3.3 directory to the newly created /mnt/lfs/gblic-build directory

Well don't. Untar glibc in /mnt/lfs/sources, cd into /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.3.3 and then execute mkdir ../glibc-build. That will create /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build. It's already been explained in this thread (respect Not now, John!) with quotes from the book. Untar in /mnt/lfs/sources, cd into what you've just untarred and then start to execute the commands on the page of the book that you're working on.

saxophobe · 11-26-2004, 06:18 PM

Thanks for replying Andrew.

To comply with your instructions, i moved the glibc-build directory from the /mnt/lfs directory to /mnt/lfs/sources directory. Then I ran the./compile command from the /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.3.3 directory and I still get the error that it must be run in it's own separate build directory. When I try it from /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build directory, I get the error that the file is not present. Is there something else that I may have overlooked?

Thanks again!

sax

Andrew Benton · 11-26-2004, 07:17 PM

If a path has one dot in front of the slash it means start in the current directory. If it has two dots it means start from the directory above the current directory. The instructions in the book say cd into glibc-build and then do
../glibc-2.3.3/configure. The two dots mean go up to the directory above and then in the folder glibc-2.3.3 run the script called configure.

saxophobe · 11-29-2004, 06:54 AM

Ah! Here is one of those gaps that I was referring to in my first post on the subject.

Thanks Andrew! I will try this!