> FWIW, my aging memory may be wrong, but I believe I successfully > compiled all of Chapter 5 and 6 during an earlier run on this machine > (but since gave up the partition during a rebuild done for other > reasons), so I'll admit it's not a squeaky clean OOB Mint install.
If I may suggest a procedural remedy: a very large percentage of the problems reported building LFS come from losing control of the build environment, resulting in the advice "start over". If one turns the book recipes into scripts this isn't as onerous as if done "cut & paste". It seems your issue falls broadly into this category. My suggestion is correspondingly a little broader: get control of your environment. > > But then FWIW, I just successfully compiled expect5.45.4 inside a fresh > VirtualBox using Manjaro, an Arch distro. So blame Mint... In my experience it can be dangerous grasping at the easy answer. When I have such a problem, I work to make it work right, but the job isn't done until I've also proven why the flaw happened in the first place--until I know I can make it reproducible, if you will. > > Oh well, I'll probably reboot to bare metal, or just start living inside > VirtualBox, but nailing this issue would be educational. I agree not to let it go. But if you're virtualized you should have kept "squeaky-clean" initial install systems, and have an easy time of starting in a controlled environment. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
