Hello all, I have tried my best to research this, but came up with no answer myself, so let me turn to the mailing group instead. The question is lengthy, but I'm puzzled and there seems to be a lack of documentation, so I can't put it concisely. Please bear with me:
I installed LFS (Version SVN-20070706) and everything is good. However, I would now like to use a package manager to pack all the packages to make my life easier. So, I essentially need to recompile every package from Chapter 6 of the book, as I already have the system on my machine. If I try to do: make mrproper make headers_check make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install the system goes to hell, glibc becomes unusable, compilers fail sanity checks, etc, and I can't compile anything (thanks god for jhalfs). The warning in the book reads in Chapter 8 section 3 (installing the kernel): "The headers in the system's include directory should always be the ones against which Glibc was compiled, that is, the sanitised headers from this Linux kernel tarball. Therefore, they should never be replaced by either the raw kernel headers or any other kernel sanitized headers." So, my questions are: 1a) What does the warning in the SVN book mean by "the ones against which Glibc was compiled ... the sanitized headers from this Linux kernel tarball"? 1b) Why can't I reuse what is installed by make headers_install target? I.e. why did "make headers_install" work in chapter 6, and it doesn't work after everything was installed (I can't compile anything anymore)? 2) Do those headers have to match the version of the kernel in use? What happens if they don't? I suppose I would have to rebuild glibc, but would other software be affected by headers change if glibc remained the same? Whoever got this far gets a beer next time they are in Belgrade :) I hope this all makes some sense... Looking forward to responses! Dejan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
