LOL thanks Paul, I'll keep going at it for sure! Just need to take a
break every few hours or else I'll end up in an early grave from stress
ha ha! :P
Got past the main errors that i was continually facing by trying out
ALFS instead. I know it's not recommended to try it before achieving
your first successful LFS build, but I thought "what the heck, all I
stand to lose is ANOTHER day of my precious life" LOL.
I managed to get up to Chapter 5.12 (installing Expect into /tools) with
ALFS before I had to get some shut eye, then decided upon reboot the
next day that I might try finishing things off manually again. And what
do you know: it actually worked! Well at least up until Chapter 6.9
(installing glibc in chroot), where the compilation and tests took so
long to execute that they ate all my RAM and forced the VM to crash and
burn :-( Now I'm scared to boot it up again, knowing there's a chance
I'll have to start all over again, AGAIN!!
But despite the constant frustration and the fact that I really have NFC
what I'm doing, I'm really enjoying the LFS project in general! I'll
keep going at it until my laptop spontaneously combusts into a twisted
pile of metal (probably some time next week :P)
On 29/12/2018 11:35 am, Paul Rogers wrote:
Getting rather frustrated as I've been trying to build my first LFS
system for over a week now!
The instructions in the book are pretty straight forward, yet following
them to the letter has gotten me absolutely nowhere after countless retries.
Kent, that's about par for the course. It happens to us all, even if we've been down the
road before. Don't let the frustrations get the better of you, just prepare you to catch
yourself before mistakes compound. The instructions in the book do work, and yes, one
must follow them pretty much as given. I weasel-word that because I _ALWAYS_
"tee" a log file off of every CMMI and that's not in the book (yet).
I consider going back to the beginning, wiping it all away, and starting over
from scratch, once, to be expected. Twice, just an annoyance. And my first
build was 4.1!
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