On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Frans de Boer wrote: > On 02/22/2013 06:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > 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. > I'm lacking context about what you are doing differently. My most recent builds are all LFS-7.2 and I didn't have to deviate from the book. The build log from 2.16 on my server has no mention of gperf in it.
So, please explain what is different in your build, e.g. different configure options in toolchain packages ? different architecture ? different versions of other toolchain packages ? non-linux host ? trying to update in-place over an older system ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
