On 3/29/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Henry christenson wrote: > > > > > after applying the patch to glib-1.2.10 > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > > <normal stuff> > > checking host system type... Invalid configureation > > 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': Machine 'x86_64-unknown' not recongnized > > > > Oh, you poor fellow, you must be really desperate to try to build > glib-1.2.10 ;) First, please consult my original postings on x86_64 and > blfs at > http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2005-June/055216.html > > In this case, the important thing is to "copy config" (config.guess and > config.sub, e.g. from /usr/share/automake-whichever-version, because > that is sufficiently up to date). Glib-1.2 is one of the packages which > has not been updated for years, and it doesn't recognise x86_64. If you > are on x86_64-64 (pure64), please disregard my comments about /lib64 in > that post. > > My most recent pure64 desktop is documented at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/my-desktops/20060305-x86_64-64 and > I plan to update that directory for future builds on x86_64-64, x86, > x86_64 multilib (if I can be bothered to go through the pain), ppc32, > and perhaps ppc64 multilib (again, if I can face the greater pain). > > If you hit problems with something that isn't mentioned, dont forget to > check the patches project - patches for architectures other than x86 are > unlikely to be mentioned in the blfs book, but we have some in the repo. > If you still have problems and your local gentoo/debian/fedora/ubuntu > mirrors don't have anything useful, you can always try asking on clfs if > it looks to be a non-i686 problem. > > Ken > -- > das eine Mal als Trago:die, das andere Mal als Farce >
Actually what dan recommended worked just fine for getting it compiled. Thanks everyone for your help i also bookmarked your page if i come accross other issues. Now that i got this fixed ill probably have little more issues. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
