On Thursday 25 August 2005 06:02, James Boggs wrote: > 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). > . > 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 You should make linux/version.h, linux/autoconf.h before kernel headers installation.
cd /usr/src/linux # configure the kernel make menuconfig make include/linux/version.h make include/linux/autoconf.h cd include cp -r linux /tools/include mkdir /tools/include/asm cp -r asm/* /tools/include/asm cp -r asm-generic /tools/include/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
