[Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Hi all, This is my first time compiling Linux kernel and I have run into a problems in Section 5.9 (binutils-2.19.1 - Pass 2) of LFS-6.5. Below is my setup information 1. LFS - Version 6.5 2. Distro: OpenSuse - 11.1 3. version-check.sh output bash, version

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread stosss
If you are not experienced at doing this, when in doubt start over. Under certain mistakes and/or errors it is possible to complete the book and even boot the new system only to find out you messed up and have to start over any way because what you have doesn't work and can't be fixed. The voice

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/12/17 stosss sto...@gmail.com: If you are not experienced at doing this, when in doubt start over. Under certain mistakes and/or errors it is possible to complete the book and even boot the new system only to find out you messed up and have to start over any way because what you have

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 15:49:22 schrieb Ken Moffat: [...] Probably, the absence of an 8-bit type : checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type Or maybe you haven't got the respective -devel packages installed? What does rpm -q glibc-devel or rpm -q

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: 6. Any deviations from the document? As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the build

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Thanks to all who replied... I would try again from scratch.. Now that I think about it, I did not check the md5 sums of the 80 downloaded tar balls. Thought it would be too much donkey labour but the key could be there At the stage at which I saw the problem, my understanding was that any

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread linux fan
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my exisiting swap partition was busy swapon: /dev/yyy: swapon failed: Device or resource busy I think that just means it is already using that swap partition. You can see what swap it

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/17/2009 02:00 PM, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my exisiting swap partition was busy (which it very well could be because my system has only 700MB of RAM). Let me create an explicit swap partition this time...

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/17/2009 04:18 PM, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: Chris, I remember that step... Could you tell me what change needed to be made in the sed command? Or, where I can look up the chat log - which I am assuming will also say what the solution was? Thanks a ton... Abhinav. It was simply a typo

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:02 +0530, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote: As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the build folder created in Pass 1 needed to be separate from that in Pass 2. If

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Abhinav Chaturvedi
Thanks Chris and Simon... Guess they're right when they say that the devil is in the details... I haven't gone too far down the process. So I will start from scratch and be doubly careful about what I do at each stage. Cheers Abhinav. 2009/12/18 Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz On Thu,