Re: Chapter 6.38 Gettext-0.17 package

2009-05-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:09:23AM +, jnbut...@jnbutler.com wrote: Okay, I ran into another error while compiling the gettext-0.17 package. Here is the last compile entry with the error: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o .libs/xgettext xgettext-xgettext.o xgettext-x-c.o xgettext-x-po.o

error installing e2fsprogs

2009-05-01 Thread Dewees, Robert L
I get an error installing e2fsprogs: LFS version: 6.4 Host distrib: CentOS 5.3 Package: e2fsprogs1.41.3 Error (see below): touch: setting times of `subdirs': Function not implemented lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/e2fsprogs-1.41.3/build$ make cd ./util ; make subst make[1]: Entering directory

Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread alupu
Hi, If true, this should go to the attention of LFS Developers. If specific to my type configuration, maybe in a Wiki, to whom it may concern. If wrong, please disregard. Before installing the 5.7, on my ncurses-5.4 system (circa Oct. 2005), I had this chain of five links:

Re: error installing e2fsprogs

2009-05-01 Thread Muzer
Dewees, Robert L wrote: I get an error installing e2fsprogs: LFS version: 6.4 Host distrib: CentOS 5.3 Package: e2fsprogs1.41.3 Error (see below): touch: setting times of `subdirs': Function not implemented snip Any help will be appreciated. -rld Looks to my untrained eye that

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
alupu wrote: If true, this should go to the attention of LFS Developers. If specific to my type configuration, maybe in a Wiki, to whom it may concern. There are quite a few things that you have not mentioned. The instructions for the entire book have been checked with an automated

RE: error installing e2fsprogs

2009-05-01 Thread Dewees, Robert L
On a whim, I renamed the executable /tools/bin/touch and created a symlink from /bin/touch (the app from the host system) and the make completed and the app install without errors. Could this be a mis-step when I installed the coreutils? -Original Message- From: Dewees, Robert L Sent:

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread alupu
Hi Bruce, On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: are there any exceptions you may have to the prereqs that are specified in section iv. Host System Requirements? 1. None that I know of. The steps ran successfully (as far as they went). Nothing seems to have

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:08:46PM -0400, alupu wrote: what is your host system? 3. Sorry, my fault. I thought the problem was independent of the particular host system. A few details (more can be provided, upon request): i686-pc-linux-gnu, (B)LFS. Kernel: 2.6.28.8, Udev: 141 One

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread alupu
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I'm still having trouble understanding this : you're saying that you are in chroot building lfs-dev, and symlinks in your original install are breaking, causing problems in e.g. Vim. Note that at this point in a normal

error installing e2fsprogs

2009-05-01 Thread Robert A. Lerche
On a whim, I renamed the executable /tools/bin/touch and created a symlink from /bin/touch (the app from the host system) and the make completed and the app install without errors. Could this be a mis-step when I installed the coreutils? I hit this too. It's due to building on an old

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Staub
alupu wrote: Hi Ken, Rarely have I seen two _totally_ disjointed conversations! I take just your first paragraph above as an example. Where did you see me using the words: - chroot You did say that the problem is in Chapter 6, in which you are (supposed to be) inside a chroot

Re: Error in NCURSES-5.7 Procedure?

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Staub
I just noticed this... alupu wrote: Hi Bruce, 4. Chapter 6 (chapter 5 procedure, which I suppose is for installing ncurses for the first time, is very simple, not containing the more sophisticated steps of 6, as seen in my post.) which I suppose is for installing ncurses for the first