When following LFS-7.5 on my iMac G5, a powerpc64 system, I had great success until I got to chapter 6 glibc. It compiled correctly but when running the check a number of failures, only a small percentage of which are listed under "expected failures", were reported.
These are the errors reported: http://pastebin.com/vUpjJTkZ When grepping around to find out the reason for these errors, I found a number of references to the inability to find libstdc++.so.6 or libgcc_s.so.1, as seen here: http://pastebin.com/swCaY3ii However, these files exist in /tools/lib and in fact, when I compiled a simple Hello World C++ program it found them fine and runs fine. See below: root:/sources/glibc-build# cat test.cpp #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl; return 0; } root:/sources/glibc-build# g++ test.cpp -o hello root:/sources/glibc-build# ldd ./hello linux-vdso64.so.1 (0x00003fffb4620000) libstdc++.so.6 => /tools/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00003fffb4481000) libm.so.6 => /tools/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00003fffb43b4000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00003fffb438e000) libc.so.6 => /tools/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00003fffb41c4000) /tools/lib64/ld64.so.1 (0x00003fffb462b000) root:/sources/glibc-build# ./hello Hello World! Running the sanity check from the end of Chapter 5 produces the expected result as well: root:/sources/glibc-build# echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c root:/sources/glibc-build# cc dummy.c root:/sources/glibc-build# readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools' [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib64/ld64.so.1] lib64 is a symlink to lib as suggested for x86_64 in the book (it seems to also be needed for powerpc64). At this point I'm wondering what all these failures mean, and whether I should just install glibc at this point and see if things break down the road, or if I should stop and wait for further instruction. I've done LFS on x86 and x86_64 before and never run into this issue, so I'm rather at a loss as to what to do. A friend of mine, Jasmine Iwanek, suggested I post this into lfs-dev and see what you all think. Below is the full glibc-check-log (linked from elsewhere as it's too big for pastebin) http://services.cyberkat.eu/glibc-check-log
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