On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 21:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Just a note to document my experience with building LFS on Ubuntu. > > First I ran through the requirements for 'Host System Requirements' and > installed several packages and changed symlinks to conform to what we need. > > Then I tried to use jhalfs -- oops, no ncurses. In addition, apt-get install > ncurses says it's not found... So I tried to build it from source. It > failed. > After looking around, I figured out that Ubuntu was missing g++ (it had > gcc). > > I think it's pretty lame to include gcc without g++. > > In any case, I got ncurses built and jhalfs is now busily building LFS. > > It will be interesting to see the results. This is a 32-bit version on the > same > box I did a 64-bit version earlier. I want to compare the results. I'll > report > back when I'm done. > > One thing I can report now is that 1 SBU is 94 seconds. Compare to 91 > seconds > for the 64-bit version. I'm still not convinced that 64-bits is a > significant > advantage unless you need address space greater than 4G. > > -- Bruce
One of the first things I do on a fresh Ubuntu install is: sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev texinfo gawk bison That adds most of the dependancies. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
