Paul Rogers wrote:
My point was to build according to the book and see if you can
duplicate the problem you are having on your system. You don't need
to use it, but it is a useful check on your scripts.
Bruce, I have full confidence jhalfs will build successfully on this
box. It's a decent, if aging (as everything I run is), ASUS P5K-VM MoBo
with a Conroe and 4GB RAM, showing no instability. (Had my share of
THOSE this year! >8-( ) I understand too, I can just kick it off and go
away, do other things, until it finishes.
I just don't see how that helps me identify where I've gone wrong.
You can look at /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/lfs-commands to see what the
instructions were used and compare to your scripts.
I accept I'm going to have to start over, but with the gcc build
script, startover with Ch6, all the way to the start of Ch5, or from
the get go?
jhalfs needs the lfs user and a mounted /mnt/lfs partition. I always
get the sources manually in /mnt/lfs/sources, but otherwise it's a clean
partition. The script checks the host system requirements for you and
if something is missing, tells you.
And was it most likely something I fumble-fingered between scripts, or
does an abi-check suggest something more specific that the gcc build
would be sensitive to? For the most part I've been successful building
LFS so far, finding and fixing mistakes, but not this one. I'm
beginning to be suspicious it's the root environment, but I really,
really want to force it to build for ANY i686, not just Conroe's and
above. I've still got useful Pentium-3's!
I use a 686 regularly, but haven't updated LFS on it for about two
years. I have updated a fair number of individual packages though.
I've learned a whole lot from LFS in the last decade, thanks to you all,
but I've gotten old (70) and I'm not as sharp as I was. I know that.
8'-( It's hard! It comes to us all, but that's no consolation.
Getting old is better than the alternative.
-- Bruce
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