On 02/22/2013 06:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 > I understand that gperf is not required - it would be mentioned otherwise does it? However, I am not the first nor probably the last running into this issue. Even glibc-2.16 requires the use of gperf and thus failed the build for LFS-7.2. This gperf issue goes back a long time, I remember even that the same issue popped up in the past with version 4.3? and latter. And without justifiable reason, it solved itself after some time.
So, it is normal that glibc-2.17 is searching for gperf? I guess that I can redo chapter six for the fourth time and hope for the best. Frans. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
