Some comments while creating the LFS 7.5 system on an openSuse v13.1
platform, I hope
they might be usable to others.
1 In the section Host System Requirements -
The openSuse v13.1 zypper command enables program versions to be found:
Example:
%zypper info bash | grep Version
Version: 4.2-68.1.5
but the version-check.sh script in LFS 7.5 book is already available.
2. However the version-check.sh script had to be changed slightly to
find the libgmp, libmpfr and libmpc libraries, as they
were under /usr/local/lib* not /usr/lib in openSuse v13.1.
-------------- CHANGED TO ----------------
for lib in lib{gmp,mpfr,mpc}.la; do
echo $lib: $(if find /usr/local/lib* -name $lib|
grep -q $lib;then :;else echo not;fi) found
done
unset lib
-------------------
3. gmp-6.0.0.tra.lz had to have the lzip package installed on openSuse v13.1
in order to unzip this type of archive. (to me a recent change)
I choose to try to install gmp-6.0.0 since I use this library very
much and it installed successfully.
4. SPECIAL NOTE: gcc-4.9.0 will NOT install, evidently enough changes
have occurred between it and gcc-4.8.2 to prevent
LFS v7.5 from being able to compile this newer package.
5. Gawk "make check" failed unexpectedly (to me) with a message
seemingly indicating that mpfr was not supported by the system, which is
not true, since it was previously just built.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lfs/gawk-4.1.0/test'
======== Done with shared library tests ========
======== Starting MPFR tests ========
MPFR tests not supported on this system
======== Done with MPFR tests ========
make[2]: Entering directory `/lfs/gawk-4.1.0/test'
2 TESTS FAILED
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lfs/gawk-4.1.0/test'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lfs/gawk-4.1.0/test'
6. Texinfo ./configure --prefix=/tools came up with a warning
(unexpected to me, since ncurses was built)
configure: WARNING: Could not find a terminal library among tinfo
ncurses curses termlib termcap terminfo
configure: WARNING: The programs from `info' directory will not be built.
-- End of comments to the LFS v7.5 install.
As to some other comments made upon my previous postings:
I appreciate the comments by both Bruce Dubbs and Christ Staub. Thanks
for being pointed back to checking the Host System Requirements, which I
did skip by glancing over the pages, instead of carefully reading them
(which I did today)
Someone laughed about the mail disclaimer, that actually was from my
Windows XP laptop which I was using as as Q&D mailout.
One final question now that I have completed Chapter 5, except for
stripping off the debug symbols and making the ownership change to root:
Can I use the gcc compiler in the /lfs partition as is? do I simply
make a user/group change to the folders and construct alias
to the /tools/bin files?
My original goal was to have a native C and C++ compiler for the
corei7 hardware.
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