On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 06:38:18PM +0200, Stefano Stoduto wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to follow the lfs book for the first time and I'm having
> some issues during the configure phase of the Texinfo package.
>
> I looked in the mailing list archive, and the very same problem has been
> reported here:
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2014-April/046811.html
>
> but, although the guys solved the problem for that instance, they didn't
> actually come to a reason for it and I'm not being so lucky: the problem is
> still there for me.
>
We thought that perl was incorrectly installed in chapter 5, but in
that first example we did not know the details of how it was wrong.
But now that I look at this, you are nearly at the end of chapter 6
and so you are using the new version of perl in chroot.
> The version of the LFS book I'm reading is 7.5, and the problem came out in
> chapter 5.32 when I execute the command:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/tools
>
> which gives the following output:
>
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /tools/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /tools/bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
> checking whether UID '1002' is supported by ustar format... yes
> checking whether GID '1002' is supported by ustar format... yes
> checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
> checking for perl... /tools/bin/perl
> checking Perl version and Encode module... no
> configure: error: perl >= 5.7.3 with Encode required by Texinfo.
>
> Executing the command "uname -a" on my host system will output:
>
> Linux localhost 3.2.0-4-486 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1 i686 GNU/Linux
>
The test in configure is:
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking Perl version and
Encode module" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking Perl version and Encode module... " >&6; }
if $PERL -e "use 5.007_003; use Encode;" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
perl_version_requirement='yes'
else
perl_version_requirement='no'
fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result:
$perl_version_requirement" >&5
$as_echo "$perl_version_requirement" >&6; }
if test z"$perl_version_requirement" = 'zno' ; then
as_fn_error $? "perl >= 5.7.3 with Encode required by Texinfo."
"$LINENO" 5
fi
type -pa perl
perl -e "use 5.007_003; use Encode;" ; echo $?
perl --version | grep version
(That last grep is because 5.18.2 outputs a total of 12 lines for
the version information.)
You say you have /bin/sh pointing to bash, which is correct. Was
it pointing to dash earlier in your build ? Have you rebuilt perl
to try to fix this ? If so, did you remove the perl source and
re-extract it ?
ĸen
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