Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:18:09PM +0530, Veena K Vinayan wrote: >> Host system : Ubuntu 11.10 >> >> LFS book version 6.5
> What is it with you people trying to build such an old version of > LFS using a fairly-recent host system ? > > This looks as if you are using an inadequate shell - I suspect that > your host system has /bin/sh pointing to dash. I'm surprised that > you seem to have ended up with an inadequate build of > /tools/bin/bash, so I wonder if there is some other error too. But > it isn't worth raking over the details. I very much doubt that > anyone here has built LFS-6.5 in the last 18 months. Using 7.2, and > paying attention to the host system requirements, will be a better > use of your time. I agree. However a new (e.g. LFS-7.1++) system can be bootstrapped from a fairly old host (e.g. LFS-6.1--). See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/files/updating-lfs.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
