Hi Ken, thanks for your prompt reply! > Just to be sure we're on the same page, that is "Pass 1", I think.
It sure is! :-) > /mnt/minlinux is not what the book specifies. I think it is now > possible to use a different prefix, like this (at one time there was > various hard-coding which broke that), but it has a knock-on effect: > What is the value of $LFS and where does /tools point to? My apologies; I should have specified in my original email that I am using /mnt/minlinux as my mount point, and have set up $LFS accordingly. So anywhere the book specifies /mnt/lfs or $LFS, you can assume that I have used /mnt/minlinux instead (including $LFS/tools). Just to prove it: lfs@Kubuntu-Box:~$ ll / (normal ls entries for everything in / before /tools) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 12 16:45 tools -> /mnt/minlinux/tools drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 12 13:32 usr/ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 12 13:32 var/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 17 06:33 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-42-generic lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 17 06:33 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-29-generic lfs@Kubuntu-Box:~$ echo $LFS /mnt/minlinux > But that might be because you have a differnent version of gcc on > your host than what I used. Looking back at my *old* logs, that > test first shows up in the gcc-4.8 series (we used 4.8.1 for > LFS-7.4) and it looks as if all my builds since then have reported > 'no'. So, which version of gcc are you running on your host? lfs@Kubuntu-Box:~$ gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0 According to p. 12 of the book, I should be using 4.9, but "Versions greater than 8.2.0 are not recommended as they have not been tested", which suggests that 7.3.0 has been tested and is safe. > At this stage we SHOULD be using the ld we compiled in the previous > step. After an earlier test for (only) ld, at about line 73 in my > log I have: > checking for ld... /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ld > Do you have the same? Just re-ran configure to make sure, and yes, I have the same line about half-way down the output. > And in general, building on real hardware ought to be easier and > faster (the windows 10 system is not very fast for file I/O, and > there may be oddities needed to get a successful build on vmware). OK thanks for the tip. I might try installing on an old PC later...I thought about doing that from the get go but I'm talking about a 10 yr old piece of crap that hasn't even been turned on in that long...so god only knows if it WILL turn on or what I may have to do to bring it back to life. But it may be worth trying! Thanks again for all your help :-)
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