On 02/22/2013 11:29 PM, Frans de Boer wrote: > On 02/22/2013 11:21 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote: >> Am 22.02.2013 22:50, schrieb Frans de Boer: >>> I understand that gperf is not required - it would be mentioned >>> otherwise does it? >> >> yes. gperf is NOT required for glibc (or any other package in lfs) >> and yes, all requirements are mentionned. >> >>> 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 >> >> i never had to build gperf for lfs. and i'm building lfs for quite some >> years (my first lfs was 3.0). glibc builds fine without gperf if you >> follow the book. >> >> i think you are the first with this issue. as far i can remenber i never >> have read about gperf issues so far. but as i'm getting older, my memory >> seems to have failures sometimes ;) > > Just search for "gperf glibc lfs". It is even on the archives by LFS. > > <snip> >
If you build unreleased packages, ie GCC snapshots or svn/git repo clones, you might need gperf. I needed it when I built gcc snapshot instead of the released version iirc. Not sure about Glibc though. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
