Great, so I'm following the book along, just fine, and have been doing the simple stuff that just about anyone could do. Then I got to 5.4. I was a little confused at the command they wanted me to type, but I eventually thought it was:

time { CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.18/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror && make && make install; }


And I got this (this is the last fragment):

( if test 'x../../../binutils-2.18/bfd/po' != 'x.'; then \
posrcprefix='../../../binutils-2.18/bfd/'; \
else \
posrcprefix="../"; \
fi; \
rm -f SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES \
&& (sed -e '/^#/d' \
-e '/^[ ]*$/d' \
-e "s@.*@ $posrcprefix& \\\\@" < ../../../binutils-2.18/bfd/po/SRC-POTFILES.in \
| sed -e '$s/\\$//') > SRC-POTFILES-t \
&& chmod a-w SRC-POTFILES-t \
&& mv SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES )
( rm -f BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES \
&& (sed -e '/^#/d' \
-e '/^[ ]*$/d' \
-e "s@.*@ ../& \\\\@" < ../../../binutils-2.18/bfd/po/BLD-POTFILES.in \
| sed -e '$s/\\$//') > BLD-POTFILES-t \
&& chmod a-w BLD-POTFILES-t \
&& mv BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES )
cd .. \
&& CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.ino/Make-in \
CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/bash ./config.status
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing bfd_stdint.h commands
config.status: executing default commands
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

real 2m59.778s
user 1m0.332s
sys 1m41.662s


I have no idea what to do, can any of you help me? Thank you.

BTW, I am installing it in VirtualBox, using Ubuntu 9.04 as my host, under ubuntu 9.04 as it's host. I have followed the book exactly (well, okay, so I save the virtualmachine once, and it could restore itself, so I had to re-setup the environment variables, but other than that, I've followed it exactly).

Thank you in advanced.

Welcome to LQ.

If you look a few line above the errors shown, then you
may see this :
" WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system. "
If I am right, the package texinfo is missing.
( /usr/bin/makeinfo )

Please see § iv. Host System Requirements
http://www.hot.ee/airm/linux/LFS6.4/.../hostreqs.html
... There are 20 packages required, one is "Texinfo-4.8"
... sudo apt-get install texinfo
provides version 4.11 , which is OK.
....
....
You can omit the " time { ..} " part of commands, if you wish.
( This is the first time, I have seen it used.)
Time is not the important thing here, more important is to
observe, how all the bits and pieces work together.
And that is easier with one command at a time, with no && .
.....
Good luck.
.....

Ya, it worked, thank you.

However, when I was making sure I had all of the packages downloaded, it didn't seem as if diffutils was not in ubuntu's repos. Yet, when I ran locate diffutils, I saw a file on the system. "/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo" Do you know if it is on the system, or do I need to go manually install it?

Thank you.

apt-cache search diff
sudo apt-get install diff

.....
Or please use the two 'Search' functions in Synaptic
to find package names, which will often
differ from package names in other Linux's .
.....