Hi Matt,

Thanks for your reply. I've had no disk space left errors before while
building a heavy package (glibc or gcc). This was after much activity so I
believe it was due to the USB drive that the LFS is on over heating. After
a break everything was normal.

This time however, there are no such errors and there is definitely disk
space left. Furthermore, I untarred the links package from scratch and ran
configure and sure enough, there is a valid Makefile generated.
But for packages such as less and sed, the configure just makes empty
files. There is nothing that stands out to me in the config.log. At the end
there is a line: configure: exit 0. There is a bunch of programs that fail
to compile, but those look designed to fail. At the top there are a few
commands that "equal" unknown, such as "/bin/arch = unknown" and
"/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown" but I doubt that has anything to do with the
problem. Other than that, I can't find anything in the log that shows any
signs of error.

I am worried that something is very wrong internally. The strange thing is
that configure fails for all packages I've tried except for the links
package. Any other packages I should try that can help diagnose the
problem? Or any commands I can run that can show why configure can't write
to the Makefiles? (at least that's the problem on the surface)

Thanks,
Alex

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Matthew Burgess <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:22:14 -0500, Alexander Spitzer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > The configure command runs with no errors. Running the make command
> > however, gives the error no targets stop. Examining the makefile reveals
> > that it is empty!
>
> I'd expect it to have given a slew of errors if this really was the
> problem,
> but the only thing I can think of that may cause this is a lack of disk
> space.
>
> Admittedly, that's a pretty unlikely scenario, to have just enough room to
> untar
> the package, but then not enough for it to write the Makefiles.  Is there
> anything
> useful in config.log?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt.
>
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