On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:16:12 +0100 (BST), Ken Moffat wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Lyn St George wrote:
>
>>
>> Ah .. my error. This is the Hardened LFS book. (I had copied the pages
>> into .sh scripts, which were placed in the LFS-6.1 directory created when
>> the Automated LFS package untarred. Completely confused myself here ..)
>>
>> I built an LFS5.1 system some time ago with the same system of copying
>> pages into .sh scripts, but now I have been given reason to build a
>> hardened version. Is this the wrong list then? Is the hardened version
>> perhaps not so well tested?
>>
>
> You might (sometimes) do better on hlfs-dev, although that isn't really
>a support list.  Certainly, hlfs hasn't had a release yet, and fewer
>people here understand it's differences.
>
> Is this the uclibc version of hlfs, or the glibc ?

Glibc

> You said that when you tried to persuade it that it wasn't
>cross-compiling, you got a message about no rule to make pty_.c needed
>by pty_.o - in my limited experience, that sort of message (missing .c
>file) implies a broken attempt at cross-compiling.  Probably, you should
>check if all of the needed patches for this flavour of the book exist
>and apply without error (I've written scripts that happily carry on when
>patches don't apply, with strange results a lot later).

The patch succeeds, but with fuzzy offsets of up to 103 lines, which
raises suspicions about it being tested for this version. 

> Also, does the ALFS package match the version of the book ?

Looking through it again it seems that too much is out of sync.
I think that I'll need to revert to building a vanilla LFS - though as
my focus is on security I'll update zlib and others known to be
potential risks. HLFS has more recent versions of these, which
is one attraction of it. 

I know it's not recommended to depart from the book, so I won't
even ask about problems associated with updates .. With luck
I'll get it done and dusted today. 

>Ken
>-- 
> das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
>
>


-
Lyn

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