Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> Well yet again I'm having problems with glibc-2.13. Now it is
>> saying that gcc has not supplied a header called cpuid.h. glibc gets
>> a little tiring I guess the stable version has some bugs like the
>> earlier stack problem. The configure script doesn't even finsh now.
>>
>> Bill
>>
> I haven't built that version, but in a slightly older version of
> the book (12/2010) that header came from gcc pass 1 and was in
> /mnt/lfs/tools/lib/gcc/XXX/v.v.v/include
> where XXX was x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu for me (will be different if you
> are building 32-bit, maybe some sort of i?86) and v.v.v was the gcc
> version.
>
> Most likely, either your gcc installed to the wrong place, or you
> didn't install it all, or there was a difference in the value of $LFS
> between the gcc build and the glibc build, or, I suppose, the /tools
> symlink might be broken.
>
> If you are building as a normal user 'lfs' (i.e. not able to create
> files in the host system's '/') then you can run 'find' against
> /tools to look for cpuid.h. If it isn't present, look at the whole
> (host) system to see if you managed to install it somewhere else.
>
> If you have been able to write to somewhere other than /mnt/lfs
> then you probably have bigger problems.
>
> Alternatively, if this is still on the old system you mentioned
> earlier (redhat 9?), then because your host system is too old, it's
> possible that cpuid.h (and perhaps other things) did not get
> installed by gcc - if that is the case, you are out on your own in
> trying to continue. I'm not saying it can't be done, only that it
> will need full logging so you can look at everything, good
> diagnostic skills, and some luck with googling for workarounds.
Well I built gcc-4.5.2 with a gcc-3.4.6 compiler. I can rebuild it with
a gcc-4.6.1 compiler I have tucked away. My linux system is old I know but I
use some pretty up to date development tools including binutils-2.21.1.
Bill
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