On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:05:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > 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. > In that case, the old versions are probably *not* the problem. You're hitting lots of problems, but we're having to guess because you didn't tell us that you'd added recent gcc and binutils.
Gcc-4.5.2 should be perfectly good enough. I'm not sure which version of binutils you are installing in LFS, but using a *newer* binutils (or gcc, or even glibc) on the host system has been known to cause problems in the past. For the moment, I doubt it is the root cause of this failure. Please look at the other possible problems I mentioned : if you have followed the book's instructions with a recent toolchain, cpuid.h should have been installed somewhere. Again, you *appear* to be jumping onto the suggestions which you think are likely to be most helpful, and not taking time to consider the whole range of suggestions that are offered. I don't know how many people have built 6.8, but I still have the impression that your problems are down to errors in what you are doing, or problems with your host system. You never confirmed that your system meets the known requirements - we're trying to read between the lines, and some of the ideas we come up with may be inappropriate because we don't understand what you are running. One thing that you haven't yet stated explicitly: are you using a recent 2.6 kernel ? 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
