Hi Gordon,
On 28/11/2016 08:15, Gordon Findlay wrote:
Hi
I have finally got around to trying jhalfs seriously, after building
LFS manually and with my own scripts at least 10 times.
I think I have sorted things out, but one thing bothers me:
The first run failed at 021-addinguser. The error was 'addinguser
failed Makefile line 197' (or words to that effect - it's gone from
scroll-back).
I tried to reproduce, and was unable to do so. Installed Opensuse Leap
42.2 with "server (text)" selection. I did not change anything to the
sudo configuration, that is the user (pierre) is in the administrative
group, so he can become root by giving his password. Installed
subversion, ncurses-devel, gcc, gcc-c++, docbook_4, texinfo (brings in
600 or so texlive packages), bison, make, m4, patch. Checked-out jhalfs.
Created /mnt/lfs and /sources, and changed ownership to pierre (note
that for testing, I did not bother to create a partition: /mnt/lfs is on
the same filesystem as /. Then run jhalfs. For me, 021-addinguser
passes, but the "mk_LUSER" target does not start, because it asks for
lfs's pasword, which is not set and I guess the sudoers configuration
prevents me from becoming any user... Setting a password for the lfs
user allowed user "pierre" to become "lfs" using sudo and to start the
build.
I added the user and group for lfs in the usual way, and restarted the
make. So far so good: it has built binutils (pass 1) and the tools
directory looks as I'd expect; now churning through gcc pass 1. (I
should have used a faster machine for experimenting - SBU=6 mins)
Any idea why the failure? Host is SuSE Leap 42.2
If anyone is looking to write documentation such as Hint for jhalfs
I'd be happy to help. I'd start it myself but I'm not sure that what I
have done is the expected way!
Well, this is sort of challenging: every distribution is different in
what base packages they install. So it is hard to say something general
about which package(s) should be added. We could also propose some sudo
configuration, but it has some chance to be insecure for some systems...
We could have some "install examples" in the jhalfs source, with
reference to specific distributions, but it would need some maintenance
to stay up to date, which is very hard, as soon as the initial
writer/programmer has vanished and the distros have evolved.
Regards,
Pierre
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