On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:29:42PM +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
> 
> Just search for "gperf glibc lfs". It is even on the archives by LFS.
> 
 The wonder of google is that it tailors its results for you, so
your results will probably differ from mine.  But what I see is a
combination of:

- lfs as in LFS (Large File System) - people building glibc without
support for files larger than 4GB

- people who asked for help, and eventually reported that it worked
when they started from scratch (in particular, someone on
linuxquestions who had thousands of unexpected failures in g++ a few
years ago, but was ok on the clean build : that reminds me of my
attempts to build LFS-6.0 or 6.1 on a #!?@'cked ppc chipset which
turned out to not have coherent DMA when I hacked on its kernel, and
which also overheated the CPU and eventually died from that - happy
memories :)

- someone explaining how to put LFS on a Raspberry PI : very
interesting, gperf was mentioned among later packages

- a discussion on the jhalfs [ automated LFS ] list between some of
our past experts in 2007, good to be reminded of them, but nothing
reproducable [ ostensibly it was about whether 'tar -m' caused
problems, for Manuel it did, but Ag couldn't get jhalfs to build at
all ]

- a post from Armin, where gperf appeared to be mentioned as
something he had succeeded in building with the change he was
talking about

 Summary - I don't think there is a common problem.  The detail you
have provided suggests that you might be applying a lot of patches.
Nothing wrong with patches, but if they are from somewhere else try
doing without them _if_ they produce unexpected problems.  If you
are not adding patches, are you using dirty source or build
directories instead of blowing them away before subsequent builds of
the package (particularly necessary for binutils, gcc, glibc and
also if you need to rebuild any package because of an error) ?

ĸen
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