Hi all. I have found that searching these forums has solved every issue Ive come across so thanks for all the great info.

However this morning I am stumped!

I built LFS 6.8 on my HPdv5000 laptop.
It worked. So I've moved on to BLFS and been successful in all the packages I've done so far, including Xwindows.

I moved on to covering all the dependcies for Firefox and repeatedly get an error for all that require patch.

bash: /usr/X11R6/bin/patch no such file or directory

But it IS there and its in my $PATH.

I googled and googled and searched here and am not sure what this means.
As is obvious I'm sure I am very novice and doing this to learn so it's been a slow ride!!!

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

What dependencies are showing the error for the patch. And what commands did you use

Its returning that error on anything with a patch. I was trying to install nss-3.12.8 and it did it, so I tried Xulrunner with the internal nspr,nss patch and its doing the same thing. I barely know what all this means so the code was straight out of the BLFS development book.

bash

export BUILD_OPT=1 &&
export NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 &&
export NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/nspr &&
export USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 &&
export ZLIB_LIBS=-lz &&
patch -Np1 -i ../nss-3.12.8-standalone-1.patch &&
make -C mozilla/security/nss nss_build_all

It dose say that nss requires nspr maybe you should install that

OK so for the sake of, I went back to LFS chpter 6, redownloaded and reinstalled Patch.
Retried the nss code and it didn't error and is making right now.

That said WHAT in the Hell happened!!

Yep NSPR installed OK last night. I went to bed and got started again this AM to find the error! Maybe my cats learned how to code was I was sleeping!

I take it you are talking about
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...r06/patch.html

Exactly. How would it just stop working like that!

Thats not the Patch you require the patch is at the top of each page of blfs if it requires a patch
Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc...pr_nss-1.patch (Required if using the included NSPR and NSS libraries as system versions for other packages)

this will be the patch required for xulrunner.Each 1 has it,s own patch listed

I get that, I misanswered your question! I actually recompiled the patch program from LFS 6.8
Then I reinstalled nss and ran the nss patch which was the part that was returning no such file error.
After reinstalling Patch-2.6.1 it ran the nss patch just fine. Why? I dont know!

Well I still don't know what happened with the patch program BUT!
Its fixed and I'm posting for the first time from Firefox on my BLFS system!!!

Glad it all worked out ok. Sometimes I have found that if it didn't work the 1st time if I went back and redone it, it worked maybe a typo you missed?