On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, MIke Cruz wrote:
>
> So your saying to untar the packages again before i rebuid. (second pass)
> to be honest the book is kind of unclear.
>
With respect, most people don't have a problem with this.
> I deleted both the sources files and the build dir after the install of
> the packages.
> and it sounds like i need the gcc source tar still.
>
You're still in chapter 5 ? How do you think you're going to build a
toolchain in chapter 6 if you keep deleting the tarballs ? Mike, please
have a look at what is coming later in the book. If you need to
download the packages for building LFS, please try to keep the tarballs
around until you have finished. (Some of us have local copies on nfs
mounts, or CDs, or whatever, so we don't have to download for each
build.) But even so, you can still download them again using the host
system, no ?
Many people make mistakes while building LFS. A lot of us build a
newer LFS a bit later (and not every package is upgraded frequently).
Throwing away the source tarball just because we've used it only slows
us down.
> So this is what i have done so far
>
> 1) installed binutils pass 1 did not delete till the book said to.
> 2) installed gcc(pass1) i deleted both the source tar and the build
> dir.(it didn't say not to)
> 3) installed other packages and removed per book.
> 4) im now at the second pass and it didn't untar the gcc package cause I
> deleted it. but I did have the core and test and g++ package that i
> untared to start the second pass.
>
gcc-{core,g++,test} and the full gcc are *alternatives* for LFS. In
LFS we only compile c and c++ so we don't need other languages like
fortran or ada or gcj or whatever. So, you can finish LFS without
downloading gcc again.
> So is my install Fubared now.
>
> so we are clear I have two dir that i made on my LFS partion.
> /lfs/tools
> /lfs/sources
>
> I have been untaring the packages into the /lfs/tools dir like the book
> stated
> (this is for the temp tools)
>
> then I have been removing any packages along with the source files -
> like the books said. It didn't mention not to remove gcc source or the
> build dir nor did it say i need the two other gcc packages "core and g++"
>
> I downloaded and completed the sec ond pass
>
> so am I screwd LOL
>
No, you've been over-enthusiastic in deleting more than you should
have, but you've still got some sort of net access (otherwise you
couldn't post here), so you can still download the source again.
Ken
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