I'm using MDK 9.1 as my base system for installing LFS, I wanted to use Slackware, but it gave me a bunch of crap, and rather than fixing that, I decided to use MDK... so my first problem happended when installing BASH it ends with this....

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* GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(3)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
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rm -f shell.o
gcc -s -DPROGRAM='"bash"' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='"i686"' -DCONF_OSTYPE='"linux-gnu"' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='"i686-pc-linux-gnu"' -DCONF_VENDOR='"pc"' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2 -c shell.c
In file included from shell.h:41,
from shell.c:48:
externs.h:163: conflicting types for `gethostname'
/usr/include/unistd.h:752: previous declaration of `gethostname'
externs.h:196: conflicting types for `strncasecmp'
/usr/include/string.h:292: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'

but I saw that it said you might get some error If your using some outdated file, but it would be fixed later, so I figured oh well, move on....

binutils installed just fine

bzip failed with this...

gcc -static -Wall -Winline -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o bzip2 bzip2.o -L. -lbz2
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bzip2] Error 1

but, i read that bzip isnt nesicary for an install, and I figured I could install it later...

so I tried diffutils and it failed with this....

checking for gcc... gcc -s
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables


now I'm hoping and guessing that all these errors are related to one simple to solve problem.... but I have no idea...


any help would be greatly appreciated

johnnabnEdit: Crap! Just found out Mandrake 9 is not compatible with LFS.... SHIT!..... guess I'll have to move the install to Slackware

Not compatible is a very strong word.

The errors you are facing right now stem from the simple fact that you don't have development tools installed.

-lc missing means that /usr/lib/libc.a doesn't exist which is your static C library. Install all the *-dev*.rpm packages you can find.

Mandrake 9.1 is a tad troublesome when it comes to compiling certain software. This isn't due to the fact that it's incompatible with LFS. LFS just lists a bunch of mostly GNU software to compile.

A more correct term would be that Mandrake isn't very compatible with compiling (GNU) software in general. It's not impossible to use Mandrake 9.1, it'll just be easier with some other distribution.