60lpsdf250 wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am following Linux From Scratch-Version 6.8. I am installing LFS on
> a Dell D620 with 2 GB memory, 500 GB harddisk, and using Ubuntu 10.10
> on a thumb drive.
>
> I made it through 5.5: GCC-4.5.2 - Pass 1 with no errors (although it
> took a while, noob here). I read the next part, 5.6. Linux-2.637 API
> Headers, and entered "make mrproper" and it failed. The book doesn't
> elaborate on what to do except to enter this command.
>
> The 5.2 Toolchain Technical Notes says "Binutils is installed first
> because the configure runs of both GCC and Glibc..." and then "The
> next package installed is Glibc." So I figured I would go on to
> Glibc-2.13 after the successful biuld of GCC... it failed to build
> ("else echo >&2 `This configuration not matched in", unfortunately
> this is all of the error I remember/wrote down) .
>
> I Googled the "make mrproper" error ("make: *** No rule to make target
> `mrproper'. Stop.") and found this:
>
> tar -xjf linux-2.6.27.4.tar.bz2
> cd linux2.6.27.4
> make mrproper
Well it should be `cd linux-2.6.27.4`, but otherwise, yes, do that.
BTW, the -j is no longer needed when extracting a tarball.
As a newbie, just follow the book as closely as you can. Make sure the
section vii needed packages are installed and symbolic links are
correct, otherwise Ubuntu 10.10 is fine.
-- Bruce
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