I was copying from the pdf. I didn't know that the pdf version would do that. I think it has to do with the <tab> that must be there.
I couldn't say if I've had the same copy-paste difficulties when doing so before. I Haven't noticed any. My host os is debian and I don't run any virtual machines. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:58 AM, akhiezer <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:09:06 -0700 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > > > > > > I've tried lfs many times..... never with any success maybe I had such > > difficulties because I was doing it on virtual machines. Anyways, I > bought > > a machine from 2006 and whatever windows version was out at that time > > (according to this > > <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history#T1=era7> page it was > > vista)... oops, now that I think of it someone put Ubuntu on it. In any > > > There already - apparently less clarity than there really should be, > about what os(es) is/are on the machine, when trying lfs. > > > > case my 20 minute compile time became 6 minutes and I got everything to > > compile after I remembered to copy the lines that would not compile and > > paste them into a text editor and then fix some of the lines. If you are > > wondering what needed to be fixed some of the lines I would copy would > read: > > > > <command> \ > > <more commands> \ > > <less commands> \ > > <final command> > > > > would paste into the terminal as: > > > > <command> > > <more commands> > > <less commands> > > <final command> > > \ > > \ > > \ > > > > and sometimes it would do the same thing with an '&&' > > in any case I want to learn how to fix things. > > > Are you copying from html or pdf versions of the book? > > Do you get similar 'weird' copy'n'paste behaviour when dealing with > similar characters from, say, a website to word-processing doc, or > word-processing doc to terminal, or editor to word-processor, etc: or > is it only when copy'n'paste from lfs html/pdf directly into a terminal > shell-/command-prompt? > > Are you working with a virtual-machine? What OS do you boot into > immediately > after switching the machine on - is it Ubuntu or Windows or what? Do you > then run any VM stuff and try to do LFS from within that? > > If it's Ubuntu, and you're not dealing with any virtual machine stuff, > then I _guess_ it may be some locale > > If (as you seem to indicate) it's a wipeable machine, then you might be > fastest just installing say Slackware 14.1 and going from there; gives a > very clean and solid build environment. > > > > hth, > akh > > > > > durring the check of glibc I got a bunch of errors. here is the printup > of: > . > . > > I don't know how to resolve an error so if you could show me how I would > > appreciate it. I tried to google it but couldn't find anything relevant. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > -- > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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