Duncan Baynes wrote: > 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.
Ahh. OK. Getting used to what a distro calls each package is a learning experience. I was looking for a package ncurses, not libncurses5-dev and I didn't know about the build-essential package. Thanks. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
