On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Uthayanan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Firerat,
>
> I did that in following way.
>
> I went to the binutis-2.21 folder first (after unziping ) and then offered
> the commands in the book. I think the commands in the book simply get out of
> the binutils folder and create binutil-build under source directory..
>
> Correct me If I am wrong.
>
>
>
No you are not wrong,
that is exactly what is happening
The thing is you say that make failed because no makefile was found,
this will happen if you did not "start" from the binutils-2.21 dir
/mnt/lfs/source$ tar vxf binutils-2.21.tar*z*
# you forgot to cd into the source dir
/mnt/lfs/source$ mkdir -v ../binutils-build; cd ../binutils-build
# you created a dir on the root of your LFS partition and entered it
/mnt/lfs/binutils-build$ ../binutils-2.22/configure \
--target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools \
--disable-nls --disable-werror
# the above failed, and ../binutils-2.22/configure doesn't exist,
# make then fails because Makefile was never created
you can be forgiven,
5.3. General Compilation Instructions
is not explicit, it makes perfect sense if you know a bit of linux,
but if you are green it probably means not a lot,
don't worry, I'm sure it is a very common mistake..
to make life easier, use this .bashrc ( 4.4. Setting Up the Environment )
cat > ~/.bashrc << "EOF"
set +h
umask 022
LFS=/mnt/lfs
LC_ALL=POSIX
LFS_TGT=$(uname -m)-lfs-linux-gnu
PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export LFS LC_ALL LFS_TGT PATH
# Firerat's 'untar and cd into' bash function
Untar () {
if [ "$#" != "1" -o ! -e "$1" ];
then
echo "Untar requires one argument"
echo "e.g."
echo "Source.tar.bz2"
exit 1
fi
cd $(tar -vxf $1 | awk -F\/ 'END{print $1}')
#TODO make this report errors better
}
## End Firerat's 'untar and cd into' bash function
EOF
don't forget to
source ~/.bashrc
( or logout and in again )
I added a small function,
instead of using
tar -xf binutils.2.21.tar.bz2
cd binutils.2.21
you can use
Untar binutils.2.21.tar.bz2
and it will automagically cd into it for you
don't worry about how it works just yet,
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