Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-07 Thread Roy Birk
I think that really will help me remember. Thank you. On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 09:06 -0500, Roy Birk wrote: And I might have been better off copying and pasting. It's difficult to tell the difference, in the book, between the

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-07 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em dom, 6/1/13, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: De: Fernando de Oliveira Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1 lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Data: Domingo, 6 de Janeiro de 2013, 9:09 I agree with you. However, I think that there must be a way to reduce user problems

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Tobias Gasser
AWK=`readlink -f /usr/bin/awk` awk=/usr/bin/awk [ $AWK == /usr/bin/gawk ] || die $awk is not a symlink to gawk some distros started to drop the /usr hierarchy the script should be a little smarter to accept the files not only in /usr/bin but just anywhere in $PATH something like awk=$(

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em dom, 6/1/13, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1 Para: LFS Support List Data: Domingo, 6 de Janeiro de 2013, 1:09 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I like this. Output from $ cat /etc/lfs-release SVN-20120311 Here is another

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em dom, 6/1/13, Tobias Gasser escreveu: De: Tobias Gasser Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1 Para: LFS Support List Data: Domingo, 6 de Janeiro de 2013, 8:35 AWK=`readlink -f /usr/bin/awk` awk=/usr/bin/awk [ $AWK == /usr/bin/gawk ] || die $awk is not a symlink

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Baho Utot
Simon Geard wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 11:39 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. My issue with the

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Roy Birk
And I might have been better off copying and pasting. It's difficult to tell the difference, in the book, between the number one and the letter L (lower case). I checked man pages and went with whichever seemed more sensible, but got it wrong a couple of times with the -W1 option. On Jan 6,

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 12:35 +0100, Tobias Gasser wrote: AWK=`readlink -f /usr/bin/awk` awk=/usr/bin/awk [ $AWK == /usr/bin/gawk ] || die $awk is not a symlink to gawk some distros started to drop the /usr hierarchy Out of curiosity, which ones? The only one I know that's messing with

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 12:35 +0100, Tobias Gasser wrote: AWK=`readlink -f /usr/bin/awk` awk=/usr/bin/awk [ $AWK == /usr/bin/gawk ] || die $awk is not a symlink to gawk some distros started to drop the /usr hierarchy the script should be a little smarter to accept the files not only in

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 09:06 -0500, Roy Birk wrote: And I might have been better off copying and pasting. It's difficult to tell the difference, in the book, between the number one and the letter L (lower case). I checked man pages and went with whichever seemed more sensible, but got it wrong

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 19:11 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: matthew gruda wrote: the output of the version check script is: bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release /bin/sh - /bin/dash Fix this. Bruce (and others), I think some improvement needs to be made to the Requirements page in the book.

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em sáb, 5/1/13, Simon Geard escreveu: De: Simon Geard Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1 Para: lfs-support Data: Sábado, 5 de Janeiro de 2013, 8:40 On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 19:11 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: matthew gruda wrote: the output of the version check script

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Tobias Gasser
My error with this page, even after having built one or two versions of LFS, was that the last line: gcc compilation OK that made me ignore the other lines, when some of these lines were telling me that I had requirements to fix. I thought: all right, host can compile, so the other lines are

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: My error with this page, even after having built one or two versions of LFS, was that the last line: gcc compilation OK that made me ignore the other lines, when some of these lines were telling me that I had requirements to fix. I thought: all right, host can

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/05/2013 07:35 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I have recurrently written about this, here. My error with this page, even after having built one or two versions of LFS, was that the last line: gcc compilation OK that made me ignore the other lines, when some of these lines were

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Tobias Gasser
Am 05.01.2013 18:39, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. agree. so why not check just the very important

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: Am 05.01.2013 18:39, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. agree. so why not check

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
--- Em sáb, 5/1/13, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1 Para: LFS Support List Data: Sábado, 5 de Janeiro de 2013, 21:24 Tobias Gasser wrote: Am 05.01.2013 18:39, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: The idea of the script was that it should

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I like this. Output from $ cat /etc/lfs-release SVN-20120311 Here is another version. I can't say I really like it. The original is 40 lines and this is 73. All this because users either don't have enough experience to understand what's there now or because a

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 11:39 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The idea of the script was that it should be short. Generally the problem is that the symlinks are not set and occasionally makeinfo is not installed. Rarely is the problem an out-of-date executable. My issue with the script isn't

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 22:09 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Here is another version. I can't say I really like it. The original is 40 lines and this is 73. All this because users either don't have enough experience to understand what's there now or because a user (generally experienced) just

[lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-04 Thread matthew gruda
When I try to compile gcc from 5.5 I get this after running make: checking for complex.h... yes checking for library containing creal... -lm checking whether creal, cimag and I can be used... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
matthew gruda wrote: When I try to compile gcc from 5.5 I get this after running make: checking for complex.h... yes checking for library containing creal... -lm checking whether creal, cimag and I can be used... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... yes

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-04 Thread matthew gruda
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: matthew gruda wrote: When I try to compile gcc from 5.5 I get this after running make: checking for complex.h... yes checking for library containing creal... -lm checking whether creal, cimag and I can be used...

Re: [lfs-support] can't compile gcc pass 1

2013-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
matthew gruda wrote: checking for MPFR... no configure: error: libmpfr not found or uses a different ABI (including static vs shared). make[1]: *** [configure-mpc] Error 1 and still getting the error OK, you are not unpacking the tarballs properly. It's not finding mpfr. That's explained