On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> when I first began playing with LFS I was instructed to script my build so
>> that is what I do. I was also instructed to build it on a virtual machine
>> but because you can get recycled computers from universities I decided to
>> build lfs on one of those instead (I got an  optiplex 755 for less than
>> $25.... that is less than what two thumb drives cost in the USA).
>>
>> First I write the build script and then copy it from the main computer to
>> the LFS machine:
>>
>> scp [email protected]:/home/bmike1/Documents/LFS/7.8/build/5.5build.txt
>> $LFS/sources
>> [email protected]'s password:
>> 5.5build.txt                                  100% 1700     1.7KB/s
>>  00:00
>>
>>
>> then I run the script. I do not think it is acting correctly because the
>> the errors appear immediately; gcc doesn't unpack.
>>
>> here is an example of the script:
>>
>> #5.5
>> tar -xf gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
>> cd gcc-5.2.0
>> cp ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz .
>> cp ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz .
>> cp ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz .
>> tar -xf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz
>> mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfr
>> tar -xJf ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz
>> mv -v gmp-6.0.0 gmp
>> tar -xf ../mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz
>> mv -v mpc-1.0.3 mpc
>>
>
> That's not what the book said to do.
>
> 1. Remove the three cp commands.
> 2. Remove the j, z, and J from the tar commands.  You only need those when
> creating the tar files.
>
>
Regarding point 1:

'GCC now requires the GMP, MPFR and MPC packages. As these packages may not
be included in your host distribution, they will be built with GCC. Unpack
each package into the GCC source directory and rename the resulting
directories so the GCC build procedures will automatically use them.'

Okay on point two.
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