On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:27:06PM -0500, Colin Dean wrote: > I've encountered (and corrected!) two strange errors in the perl build > at chapter 6.22. > > After using the configure command in the book, a makefile was generated > with an extraneous '0' at: > > line 954 in /perl-5.8.8/makefile > line 159 in /perl-5.8.8/x2p/makefile > > I simply backed out of the chroot, found the line, and removed the > character. > > I'm using the LFS LiveCD from within a VMware environment. > > Has anyone else encountered this ever? > Not recently. I think I saw something like this, probably a year or even 2 years ago. At one time I'm sure I had a sed in my buildscripts to tidy this up. I think in my case the problem was short-lived, so perhaps caused by user error somewhere, or perhaps exposed by one package upgrade and fixed by another.
The archives mention a similar problem with 5.8.7 in chapter 5: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00345.html although a strangely similar post for LFS-6.0 and 5.8.5 is at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=302341 so people have seen this occasonally, but the reason is unknown. As a guess, problems with awk, bash, sed, or perhaps grep, could upset the Configure script hiding behind configure.gnu. That's particularly true where we're using whatever versions are on the host, but you got past that. Of these, only bash has been problematic in recent times. Did you apply the fixes patch to bash in chapter 5 ? I guess you are ok to continue with the edited makefiles. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
