While on the step Installing Linux-2.4.20 headers , and trying to run the make mrproper command, I can't get past this error.
I only found one other post that had sort of the same problem, and the solution there did not work for me. (ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh) It told me /bin/sh already existed.



Here is the error:


I have no name!:/# cd /usr/src
I have no name!:/usr/src# cd linux-2.4.20/
I have no name!:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# make mrproper
/bin/sh: sed: command not found
Makefile:254: arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `arch//Makefile'. Stop.
I have no name!:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20#


Here is my environment, if that helps:

I have no name!:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# printenv
PWD=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20
PS1=\u:\w\$
CXXFLAGS=$CFFLAGS
OLDPWD=/usr/src
SHLVL=1
CFFLAGS=-03 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse
HOME=/root
TERM=xterm
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/static/bin
_=/static/bin/printenv
I have no name!:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20#

I've come too far to quit now, any help would be greatly appreciated.

you have to be root.

I was root when I did the chroot command, and from what I understand, I should still be root. I tried the su command but that doesn't seem to be working yet. I did a whoami and it came back with this:

I have no name!:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# whoami
whoami: cannot find username for UID 0

Isn't user 0 root?

BTW, I am using Mandrake 9.1 as the host system if that means anything, i've heard it is not as LFS-friendly as other distro's

I just started an LFS project. I'm not up to the header installation part yet, but looking at your error, am I correct that your problem here started when the process could not find the command 'sed' ?

Is sed in your path in Mandrake 9.1? Are the persmissions set for it?

My slackware system has sed in /bin and a link to it in /usr/bin.

Just a thought.

Edit: Oh, I see there's a step for installing sed for the LFS system in ch. 5.20 of the book. The sed I found was from my slackware system, since I haven't installed sed on LFS yet.

Well thank you very much itsjustme,
your reply made me start looking for sed and it was nowhere to be found.
Not sure how I missed it in chapter five but I did.
Just went back and installed it and the mrproper worked fine, one more hurdle crossed.

Thanks again