I"ve been using Linux for several years, and various other
*NIXes since about 1990 or so, working as a software engineer,
so I feel fairly comfortable with the build environment. I've
build LFS once before, and didn't want to go through it by hand
again, so I'm trying jhalfs on a "blank" system I built up
from pieces of this and that.
I'm using jhalfs-2.3.1 on the LiveCD 6.3 r2160, book version
6.4.
I boot the LiveCD...
# mkdir /mnt/build_dir
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/build_dir
# chown jhalfs:jhalfs /mnt/build_dir
# swapon /dev/hda2
# su - jhalfs
$ startx
I want to use a few windows, mostly so I can read the book
while I do the build, and also read the jhalfs README
etc., and look at things side-by-side.
The windowing system starts up, and I create the following
directories:
/mnt/build_dir/BOOK
/mnt/build_dir/sources
and populate them. Next, I copy (so I have a persistent
version) /home/jhalfs/jhalfs-2.3.1
$ cp -a /home/jhalfs/jhalfs-2.3.1 /mnt/build_dir
I then unpacked the kernel sources into a temporary
area and ran the configurator, to create /mnt/build_dir/kernel-config
Next, I cd to /mnt/jhalfs-2.3.1 and "make". After I'm satisfied with
the configuration parameters, I save them, and then tell it to go.
It starts up, and verifies that it thinks it has a reasonable situation,
and then asks me if I'm satisfied. I am, so it starts to run...
Creating Makefile... START
LFS/master.sh:line 381:cd: /mnt/build_dir/jhalfs/lfs-commands: No such
file or directory
Ok,
$ mkdir -pv /mnt/build_dir/jhalfs/lfs-commands
creates two directories, one under the other. Do another make, and
tell it to "go"
Now it stops
No rule to make target makefile-functions
$ locate makefile-functions
finds one in /home/jhalfs/jhalfs-2.3.1/common, which I copy to
/mnt/build_dir/jhalfs
Do another make, and it stops again...
Building target 020-creatingtoolsdir
ln:creating symbolic link '/tools': Permission denied
I look at the sudoers file, and all looks ok. I have no problem
doing sudo from the command line. The user is in there as
no password required. Ok..
$ sudo chmod 775 /
$ sudo chown root:jhalfs /
$ make
This fails trying to create /mnt/build_dir/tools, which already exists.
Ok
$ rmdir ../tools
$ make
Now it fails with
Building target 021-addinguser
groupadd: unable to lock group file
useradd: invalid numeric argument 'lfs'
So, it looks like jhalfs (user) either can't do sudo (but
he can, because I'm he, and I did a few) or the commands are
not wrapped in sudo. This could possibly be because of the
lack of a proper makefile-functions I guess, but I don't know.
The $ locate only turned up one version of that, though maybe
more exist:
$ sudo find / -name "makefile-functions"
/home/jhalfs/jhalfs-2.3.1/common/makefile-functions
/mnt/build_dir/jhalfs-2.3.1/common/makefile-functions
/mnt/build_dir/jhalfs/makefile-functions
I tried mkdiring a "common" directory in there, and mving
the makefile-functions into it, thinking maybe there was
a path problem, but that only made it complain it couldn't
find the makefile-functions file.
Ok, now what? I can't just go on babying it along. Obviously,
something about my setup was unanticipated by the tool, and
I confused it somehow. What have I done wrong?
Mike
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