Re: [lfs-support] Proposed Changes to LFS Book

2014-01-16 Thread D. Birch
On 16 January 2014 00:59, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:51:23PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:50:47PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: I would like to submit for your consideration the following changes to the Section III. 6.7.

[lfs-support] GCC-$.8.1 Configure fatal errors

2014-01-16 Thread William Darryl Jackson
Greetings, back in GCC-4.8.1 again section 5.5.1 - after re-reading everything I decided to do as suggested to try to find out why I am having so much difficulty with this 'make'. In the config.log I found the following fatal errors: Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-$.8.1 Configure fatal errors

2014-01-16 Thread William Harrington
On Jan 16, 2014, at 9:46 AM, William Darryl Jackson wrote: After the the configure appears to complete successfully. Should I be concerned about either of these two failures? Thanks, William No, it is testing a system for which compiler is installed and which options to include for

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-$.8.1 Configure fatal errors

2014-01-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 16/01/2014 16:49, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : On 01/16/2014 10:46 AM, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Greetings, back in GCC-4.8.1 again section 5.5.1 - after re-reading everything I decided to do as suggested to try to find out why I am having so much difficulty with this 'make'. In

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-$.8.1 Configure fatal errors

2014-01-16 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 16-01-2014 13:37, Pierre Labastie escreveu: Le 16/01/2014 16:49, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : On 01/16/2014 10:46 AM, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Greetings, back in GCC-4.8.1 again section 5.5.1 - after re-reading everything I decided to do as suggested to try to find out why I am

[lfs-support] Two suspected bugs

2014-01-16 Thread parmenides
Hi, I am build the LFS 7.4 following the book, and find two suspected bugs: (1) In Preface, vii. Host System Requirements, the version of tar is required 1.18, but this version does not support xz format at all.As such, the following command will fail: tar Jxvf foo.tar.xz Although using

Re: [lfs-support] Two suspected bugs

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/16/14 13:00, parmenides wrote: Hi, I am build the LFS 7.4 following the book, and find two suspected bugs: (2) In chapter 5, 5.7. Glibc-2.18 I got the following warning: configure: WARNING: *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: autoconf *** some

Re: [lfs-support] Two suspected bugs

2014-01-16 Thread William Harrington
On Jan 16, 2014, at 12:00 PM, parmenides wrote: (2) In chapter 5, 5.7. Glibc-2.18 I got the following warning: configure: WARNING: *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: autoconf *** some features will be disabled. *** Check the INSTALL file for required

Re: [lfs-support] Two suspected bugs

2014-01-16 Thread William Harrington
On Jan 16, 2014, at 1:04 PM, William Harrington wrote: The New short option -J (alias for --lzma) was put in 1.20.90 which is in 1.22. This didn't make it, Also for the release note: http://freecode.com/projects/tar/releases/295528 Sincerely, William Harrington --

[lfs-support] Gcc-4.8.1 Section 5.5.1 - libmpfr

2014-01-16 Thread William Darryl Jackson
Greetings, My first pass of make produced the following error: checking for MPFR... no configure: error: libmpfr not found or uses a different ABI (including static vs shared). make[1]: *** [configure-mpc] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build' make: *** [all] Error 2

Re: [lfs-support] Gcc-4.8.1 Section 5.5.1 - libmpfr

2014-01-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 16/01/2014 22:15, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : Greetings, My first pass of make produced the following error: checking for MPFR... no configure: error: libmpfr not found or uses a different ABI (including static vs shared). make[1]: *** [configure-mpc] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving

Re: [lfs-support] Building Check-0.9.10 fails and fixed

2014-01-16 Thread Loïc Le Ninan
Davis Abubakr-Sadik Nii Nai dwa2pac at gmail.com writes: Hello list, I am trying to build LFS 7.4 stable. The package check-0.9.10 in section 5.14 failed to build. I got it to build, but would like to ask if anyone has come across this problem, and since it's not

[lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread Louis Rine
Hello all. :) I'v gone through the book a couple times in the past on i686, but this is my first time around with x86_64. All seemed to go well until I ran into this little gem while installing libstdc++: ...lots of compilation output... Making install in libsupc++ make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [lfs-support] Gcc-4.8.1 Section 5.5.1 - libmpfr

2014-01-16 Thread William Darryl Jackson
On 01/16/2014 04:23 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 16/01/2014 22:15, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : Greetings, My first pass of make produced the following error: checking for MPFR... no configure: error: libmpfr not found or uses a different ABI (including static vs shared). make[1]:

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 04:23:51PM -0600, Louis Rine wrote: Hello all. :) I'v gone through the book a couple times in the past on i686, but this is my first time around with x86_64. All seemed to go well until I ran into this little gem while installing libstdc++: ...lots of compilation

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread Louis Rine
If this is the correct use of ldd... :~$ ldd /tools/bin/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu-ranlib linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fffa837b000) libz.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x7ff874f03000) libc.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7ff874b3a000)

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:47:42PM -0600, Louis Rine wrote: If this is the correct use of ldd... :~$ ldd /tools/bin/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu-ranlib linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fffa837b000) libz.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x7ff874f03000) libc.so.6 =

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread Louis Rine
Ah, I was wondering if dash would make a difference. I will fix that and try again. Thank you. :) On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:47:42PM -0600, Louis Rine wrote: If this is the correct use of ldd... :~$ ldd

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-16 Thread William Harrington
On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Louis Rine wrote: Ah, I was wondering if dash would make a difference. I will fix that and try again. Thank you. :) It does, and that is why the host system requirements states: Bash-3.2 (/bin/sh should be a symbolic or hard link to bash) But that may not be

Re: [lfs-support] Gcc-4.8.1 Section 5.5.1 - libmpfr

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/16/14 18:07, William Darryl Jackson wrote: On 01/16/2014 04:23 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 16/01/2014 22:15, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : You are correct - Pierre, I came to that same conclusion. So I very carefully repeated the steps on page 36 to ensure those folders were being