On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 07:44:09PM -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > > This is on a USB flash drive that is 4GB in size and the filesystem is ext3.
I suspect your flash drive is failing. This is why I do not recommend _building_ on a (usb) flash drive. As I wrote a few hours ago on lfs-support, building in a regular filesystem on a commodity flash drive causes a lot of writes - all solid-state drives have a limited number of writes, using conventional filesystems uses up a chunk of those writes, compiling uses a lot more. > > I have already built less and sed from LFS, but I am trying to add new > modules to the system from BLFS. I successfully added several modules but > when I tried adding libpng I ran into this problem. Perhaps it is the new > year problem? ;p LOL - my monthly script to archive my email broke at the new year, a change in the format of 'date' between LFS-7.1 and 7.2 : but it _ought_ to have failed well before that, so perhaps there is indeed something odd about this new year ;-) > > . All of the packages I've tried that do > not work have already been installed (except for libpng) but I am almost > positive this doesn't prevent configure from writing a complete Makefile, > right? > Right. Please note that each configure script is different - many of them start with the same 'overhead', but they do very different things. I guess that most of them use sed to convert Makefile.in to Makefile at the moment. If you can, please don't top post. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
