On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Mario Meier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Mario Meier wrote: >> > !! I am not english native speaker. I am from Austria and maybe I >> > will post sentences that are grammatically wrong. Please ask me if >> > you do not understand me. >> >> Sometimes non-native speakers know more about our language than >> native-speakers. :) >> >> > I have a big problem. I already tried to build LFS multiple times. My >> > current try is from a VirtualBox VM with a Win7 host and an openSUSE >> > guest system. >> > >> > I put the source tarballs to a directory on the host system >> > (accessable as shared folder at /mnt/host), but I use the LINUX tar >> > to extract the archives. I know that using Windows applications may >> > cause errors. >> > >> > I have extracted GCC to /mnt/lfs/sources (I will call it /sources in >> > the rest of the mail) and have set the $src variable to /mnt/host. >> > >> > I always used this command to extract an archive: >> > >> > tar -xvaf <package>*.tar* >> > >> > That should allow me to leave out the version number and the >> > compression file extension. The -a flag means that TAR automatically >> > detects the compression method. >> >> > In the german support channel, they told me to leave out -a. I did so >> > and also left out the stars and wrote the full path. >> >> The -a is not necessary. I don't really care to watch the output of tar >> any more, so I just use 'tar -xf $DIR/$PROGRAM.tar.?z*' in my scripts. >> That gets .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz. It misses the occasional .tgz. >> >> > I had tested if that worked. It now says, "libmprf not found or uses >> > different ABI" >> > >> > Could you help me please? >> >> I'm not sure what your question is. You have openSUSE and it doesn't >> extract the tarfiles? What version of tar do you have? 'tar --version'. >> > > My question is that it does not find MPFR! > I am sorry, I did not read through the message before sending it. > What my question is: Why does the GCC compilation brake? > I am in 'make' process and it says it does not find libmpfr! > > My TAR Version: > > tar (GNU tar) 1.26 > Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > (...) > > I left out the license part, because it is in german and (as I see) not > relevant. > > I will go to vacation next week, but will be happy about an answer in my > letterbox when I get back. > > Thanks in advance, > *Bean*Me
Well, if make breaks, you should send your output from make where the error occurs, and a few lines above of that. Matijn -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
