Ken Moffat wrote:
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
<snip>
> <snip>
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.
I had to dig a bit, and ended up on the wayback machine to find the fix:
Perl fails with *** missing separator. Stop.
It's missing a device file. (AFAIK, /dev/null, but maybe
/dev/zero.) Anyway, either you forgot to run MAKEDEV, or MAKEDEV failed,
or you're using devfs and forgot to mount --bind it under $LFS.
If MAKEDEV failed, often all the device's ids will end with a "-".
AFAIK, this happens when MAKEDEV is run without $LFS/proc mounted.
The devices should look exactly like this:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l /dev/{null,zero}
* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/null
* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Dec 31 1969 /dev/zero
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $
Perhaps this error should be readded to the FAQ?
(If it's not already there, I was able to load it earlier, but am
strangely unable to hit linuxfromscratch.org at the moment.)
problematic in recent times. Did you apply the fixes patch to
bash in chapter 5 ?
Yes.
Thanks.
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