On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:21:03PM -0600, Carl Schmitt wrote: > This is my first time building lfs and I can't seem to get past the > second pass of GCC-4.0.3. I'm using a livecd-6.2-5 as the base system. > > On every attempt I seem to get similar errors, first pair of errors in > dejagnu using make check and a number of when I run make -k check on > gcc. Once I tried simply ignoring these errors since they were > temporary tools, but glibc in chapter 6 failed completely.
Hi Carl, this isn't a very useful post, you haven't told us what errors you got from glibc! If I understand you correctly, you've started over, and are now worrying that pass-2 gcc reports errors ? Errors in gcc are *expected*, that's why we pass '-k' to 'make check'. If you get a *lot* of errors in pass2 gcc, you might have a problem. A *handful* of errors is probably no big deal. FWIW, running tests on non-toolchain packages such as dejagnu in chapter 5 might be worth doing for people testing changes to the book itself (that's debateable), but it's probably not useful to you - we throw away the things in /tools as you noted. Since you seem to be worried by test errors in gcc where we use 'make -k check', I wonder if "failed completely" is true ? If you are getting problems building glibc in chapter 6, recent problems seem to have been caused by (in no particular order): · people not deleting -build directories from the toolchain (the need to delete the source directories before extracting for a subsequent build should go without saying) · missing symlinks (section 6.6 of the 6.2 book) · mistakes when installing perl in chapter 5. · forgetting to patch bash in chapter 5. · and the perennial favourite, managing to link some of the programs in /tools agaisnt the host's libraries: if you have to stop the build and log out, please make sure that everything (e.g. $PATH) is set correctly when you resume. So, unless you have a lot of errors from pass2 gcc, please continue. If you again get problems with glibc, post the error message on the list. Sometimes it takes a day or two to get to the bottom of a problem, but hopefully we will be able to point you to its cause. 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
