I decided today that I was going to do this LFS thing, and in one
sitting no less. Some twelve hours later, running LFS LiveCD 6.1 and 6.1
book, i'm left scratching my head still early in the process. After
struggling with this particular problem for a couple of hours, I've decided
to give up for the night and return to windows, so I have not an exact
transcription of the error; I'm pretty sure I know enough to outline the
problem though. Anywho.
When I attempt to configure the glibc package, it comes to a point
where it checks the version of the kernel header package, and then exclaims
that the version I have is too old, linux kernel 2.0.1etc. or higher is
required to build glibc. It notifies me that it checks it's req' against the
file version.h , which of course i copied directly from the livecd. After
deleting and re-copying my includes directory, double and triple checking
the command line used verbatim from the LFS documentation, I downloaded a
newer release of the glibc source and attempted to build it, yielding the
same result (which I suppose the documentation had spoken against grabbing
newer releases of included packages, but I thought I would try anyway). I
then downloaded the kernel source 2.6.12 and pulled the headers from it, and
the problem persists. So basically, I'm stupified. I'm sure this is much
like the other problems I've had since I started this thing, and I'm missing
something fundamental and obvious to everyone but me ^_~
If it helps, if not for reference, my system specs are as follows:
Asus A8N SLi Deluxe mobo
Athlon XP 64 3200
Gforce 6600gt
1gb generic ram
1x80GB maxtor ide hdd
1x200GB maxtor sata hdd
with the 80gb as the one I'm using for my opensource exploratory disasters.
I carefully followed the steps as set in the LFS documentation (excepting
when I lapsed into backslashes and almost tore my hair out trying to figure
out what was happening o_O).
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Shame on me. I've checked the docs and faqs and googles and lists and
boards, and can't seem to reconcile. If anyone has any advice I would be
most appreciative, if you need more detailed information, please forgive my
oversight; I'll post any appendices to my info as I gather it myself, thanks
for your time and patience with us simpletons, and have a fabulous day. I
need to go to sleep now.
James Boggs
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