Frans de Boer wrote: > Hello all, > > Since a couple of weeks I am trying to use the LFS project to start > building my own base system. I grew tiered of modifying existing > distributions. > > So far so good, but as is mentioned many times over the Internet by > others, compiling glibc-2.17 (or .16) runs into the gperf obstacle. I > have never found an adequate remedy and without that everything else > fails when I decide to ignore the error. > > I then tried to compile gperf-3.0.4 but that has it's own problems. > There is an error in line 1131 of gperf.texi and the product needs TeX. > I corrected the error but TeX is an issue in itself. > > Has anybody figured out how to compile glibc without the use of gperf? > Beside, why does a basic package like glibc depends on having tools > which can only be generated further down the LFS?
If you follow the book, gperf is not required. Lately texinfo-5.0 breaks the build for gcc, but that has a work-around in LFS-7.3-rc1. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
