[Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Hi all, This is my first time compiling Linux kernel and I have run into a problems in Section 5.9 (binutils-2.19.1 - Pass 2) of LFS-6.5. Below is my setup information 1. LFS - Version 6.5 2. Distro: OpenSuse - 11.1 3. version-check.sh output bash, version

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread stosss
If you are not experienced at doing this, when in doubt start over. Under certain mistakes and/or errors it is possible to complete the book and even boot the new system only to find out you messed up and have to start over any way because what you have doesn't work and can't be fixed. The voice

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-17 Thread Dominic Ringuet
The information may be outdated (1 year ago), but I managed to build a dev LFS system from Knoppix 5.1 on a PII with 256mb RAM. The 3 tricks I remember were: 1. Use a swap partition, the build failed for obscure reasons without any and it was in gcc too if I remember correctly. *1.5gig has

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/12/17 stosss sto...@gmail.com: If you are not experienced at doing this, when in doubt start over. Under certain mistakes and/or errors it is possible to complete the book and even boot the new system only to find out you messed up and have to start over any way because what you have

RE: LFS 6.3 Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2 startfiles check fails -- no output

2009-12-17 Thread Pixel 73
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:06:23 -0500 Subject: Re: LFS 6.3 Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2 startfiles check fails -- no output From: linuxscra...@gmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org On 12/16/09, stosss wrote: On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote:

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 15:49:22 schrieb Ken Moffat: [...] Probably, the absence of an 8-bit type : checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type Or maybe you haven't got the respective -devel packages installed? What does rpm -q glibc-devel or rpm -q

Re: LFS 6.3 Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2 startfiles check fails -- no output

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote: But now I found out, that the startfiles show up when I am entering the following command: grep -o '/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log (Can you see above how I trimmed the '' quoted text to just the part I want to resond to?) Show us the output of this

Re: LFS 6.3 Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2 startfiles check fails -- no output

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, linux fan wrote: On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote: Are you sure you had the configure command exactly as in the book ? And I'm thinking ... I usually copy/paste each entire grey block and look at i before pressing enter. Notice that the backslashes \ at the end of some lines make

Re: man-db-2.5.5 never installed

2009-12-17 Thread akhiezer
20091217094941_-0600: Guy Dalziel in dementedfury wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:12:49PM +, akhiezer wrote: Would it be useful to also wrap the '#paper_size#' in a css (or similar) style, so that it can readily be made to stand out more, visually? As has been said before LFS is an

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: 6. Any deviations from the document? As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the build

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Thanks to all who replied... I would try again from scratch.. Now that I think about it, I did not check the md5 sums of the 80 downloaded tar balls. Thought it would be too much donkey labour but the key could be there At the stage at which I saw the problem, my understanding was that any

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my exisiting swap partition was busy swapon: /dev/yyy: swapon failed: Device or resource busy I think that just means it is already using that swap partition. You can see what swap it

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/17/2009 02:00 PM, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my exisiting swap partition was busy (which it very well could be because my system has only 700MB of RAM). Let me create an explicit swap partition this time...

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/17/2009 04:18 PM, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Chris, I remember that step... Could you tell me what change needed to be made in the sed command? Or, where I can look up the chat log - which I am assuming will also say what the solution was? Thanks a ton... Abhinav. It was simply a typo

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:26:31 -0500 From: Dominic Ringuet dring...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Message-ID:     f1c8dcc10912170426q41d33b59p5a6d0d6c36b2b...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/18/2009 12:56 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Dominic and everyone else, Thanks for the tips. I found patch after refreshing the synaptic packages, and it installed fine. Now I'm on level 6.9, and I get these errors when I run the tests on glibc: make[2]: ***

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:02 +0530, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the build folder created in Pass 1 needed to be separate from that in Pass 2. If

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Thanks Chris and Simon... Guess they're right when they say that the devil is in the details... I haven't gone too far down the process. So I will start from scratch and be doubly careful about what I do at each stage. Cheers Abhinav. 2009/12/18 Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz On Thu,