On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:41:36PM +0530, pavithra aravamudhan wrote: > Dear Users, > I'm new to LFS. I'm currently working on lfs-6.1.1. My host is > running on Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.5 and gcc 3.3.3). I have > installed binutils and gcc successfully. when i try installing > glibc-2.3.4, i get the following error.. > > running configure fragment for ../glibc-2.2.5/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux > checking installed Linux kernel header files... TOO OLD! > configure: error: GNU libc requires kernel header files from > Linux 2.0.10 or later to be installed before configuring. > The kernel header files are found usually in /usr/include/asm and > /usr/include/linux; make sure these directories use files from > Linux 2.0.10 or later. This check uses <linux/version.h>, so > make sure that file was built correctly when installing the kernel header > files. To use kernel headers not from /usr/include/linux, use the > configure option --with-headers.
The part below makes me real suspicious. > i have already copied the required kernel header files from the host > system, to appropriate locations on my LFS partition. i am also using > the --with-headers flag with appropriate path. You shouldn't copy headers from your host system. There's linux-libc-headers.tar.bz2 that you should untar and copy headers from there. -- Minds, like parachutes, function best when open -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
