hi Kerry that fixed it thanks.
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Re: Multilib support (Thanos Baloukas) ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: [lfs-support] Multilib support From: "Rob"<captinlo...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:06:29 -0500 To: <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- In chapter 6 of LFS, we have "--disable-multilib" specified in the configure instructions. What will happen if I don't include that? I have some programs that I want to run which are 32 bit, and require 32 bit libs. ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Probably simple binutils installation issue From: "Kerry Cox"<kerryj...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:32:48 -0600 To: "LFS Support List"<lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- I had the same issue using version 7.9 with my University Linux class. I had them roll back to version 7.8 and no issues. My 2 cents. Kerry On Friday, September 2, 2016, smith.aaron <smith.aa...@zoho.com> wrote: Hi everyone, Have run into difficulty trying to install binutils at the start of LFS chapter 5. I spent the last two days slowly re-reading up to chapter five, googling around, and correcting any mistakes I found, but to no avail. I found plenty online close to describing my specific symptoms, but nothing that exactly addressed it, or enabled me to figure the problem out. First here is the terminal output where I encounter the problem: !Y+lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ ../configure --prefix=/tools \ > --with-sysroot=$LFS \ > --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ > --target=$LFS_TGT \ > --disable-nls \ > --disable-werror checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-lfs-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for gawk... gawk checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: in `/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ Here is the output of version-check.sh. Hopefully I am just including this for reference/to show everything is ok in this regard... bash, version 4.3.46(1)-release /bin/sh -> /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.26.1 bison (GNU Bison) 3.0.4 /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. Coreutils: 8.25 diff (GNU diffutils) 3.3 find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git GNU Awk 4.1.3, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.4-p2, GNU MP 6.1.1) /usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk gcc (Debian 6.1.1-11) 6.1.1 20160802 g++ (Debian 6.1.1-11) 6.1.1 20160802 (Debian GLIBC 2.23-5) 2.23 grep (GNU grep) 2.25 gzip 1.6 Linux version 4.6.0-kali1-686-pae (de...@kali.org) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-6) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 (2016-07-21) m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17 GNU Make 4.1 GNU patch 2.7.5 Perl version='5.22.2'; sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2 tar (GNU tar) 1.29 texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.1 xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha g++ compilation OK Finally, here is the config.log mentioned in the terminal. I think I cut and paste the right bit of it. Overall it was very big and I am not sure of mailing list etiquette, so tried to just get the relevant bit. I am confident I have entered any other commands correctly (except that of course I am having this problem, so...!) lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ ../configure --prefix=/tools \ > --with-sysroot=$LFS \ > --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ > --target=$LFS_TGT \ > --disable-nls \ > --disable-werror checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-lfs-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for gawk... gawk checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler defa Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the book and community - although I have run into trouble here I think it is going to be of great help for me. -- --- Kerry Cox, Ph.D. Neumont University Faculty http://www.neumont.edu Work: 801.302.2861 Cell: 801.554.7706 k...@neumont.edu ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Probably simple binutils installation issue From: "Thanos Baloukas"<baloukast...@sch.gr> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 23:48:30 +0300 To: <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- On 02/09/2016 09:26 μμ, smith.aaron wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Have run into difficulty trying to install binutils at the start of LFS > chapter 5. I spent the last two days slowly re-reading up to chapter > five, googling around, and correcting any mistakes I found, but to no > avail. I found plenty online close to describing my specific symptoms, > but nothing that exactly addressed it, or enabled me to figure the > problem out. > > First here is the terminal output where I encounter the problem: > > !Y+lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ ../configure > --prefix=/tools \ > > --with-sysroot=$LFS \ > > --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ > > --target=$LFS_TGT \ > > --disable-nls \ > > --disable-werror > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking target system type... i686-lfs-linux-gnu > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c > checking whether ln works... yes > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed > checking for gawk... gawk > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... > configure: error: in `/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build': > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details. > lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ > > > > > Here is the output of version-check.sh. Hopefully I am just including > this for reference/to show everything is ok in this regard... > > bash, version 4.3.46(1)-release > /bin/sh -> /bin/bash > Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.26.1 > bison (GNU Bison) 3.0.4 > /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc > bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. > Coreutils: 8.25 > diff (GNU diffutils) 3.3 > find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git > GNU Awk 4.1.3, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.4-p2, GNU MP 6.1.1) > /usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk > gcc (Debian 6.1.1-11) 6.1.1 20160802 > g++ (Debian 6.1.1-11) 6.1.1 20160802 > (Debian GLIBC 2.23-5) 2.23 > grep (GNU grep) 2.25 > gzip 1.6 > Linux version 4.6.0-kali1-686-pae (de...@kali.org) (gcc version > 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-6) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 > (2016-07-21) > m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17 > GNU Make 4.1 > GNU patch 2.7.5 > Perl version='5.22.2'; > sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2 > tar (GNU tar) 1.29 > texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.1 > xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha > g++ compilation OK > > > Finally, here is the config.log mentioned in the terminal. I think I cut > and paste the right bit of it. Overall it was very big and I am not sure > of mailing list etiquette, so tried to just get the relevant bit. I am > confident I have entered any other commands correctly (except that of > course I am having this problem, so...!) > > > lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ ../configure > --prefix=/tools \ > > --with-sysroot=$LFS \ > > --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ > > --target=$LFS_TGT \ > > --disable-nls \ > > --disable-werror > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking target system type... i686-lfs-linux-gnu > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c > checking whether ln works... yes > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed > checking for gawk... gawk > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler defa > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the book and community > - although I have run into trouble here I think it is going to be of > great help for me. > > You posted the configure output, not config.log config.log is created by the configure script, not redirecting it's output. The error in config.log should be after the line: checking for C compiler default output file name Copy and paste that part. Also, do this test: $ cat > test.c << "EOF" int main () { ; return 0; } EOF $ gcc test.c You should have an a.out executable. $ ./a.out $ echo $? This should output 0 -- Thanos ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Probably simple binutils installation issue From: "Bruce Dubbs"<bruce.du...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 16:06:04 -0500 To: "LFS Support List"<lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- smith.aaron wrote: > Have run into difficulty trying to install binutils at the start of LFS > chapter 5. I spent the last two days slowly re-reading up to chapter > five, googling around, and correcting any mistakes I found, but to no > avail. I found plenty online close to describing my specific symptoms, > but nothing that exactly addressed it, or enabled me to figure the > problem out. > > First here is the terminal output where I encounter the problem: > > !Y+lfs@kali:/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build$ ../configure > --prefix=/tools \ > > &gt; --with-sysroot=$LFS \ > > &gt; --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ > > &gt; --target=$LFS_TGT \ > > &gt; --disable-nls \ > > &gt; --disable-werror > configure: error: in `/mnt/sda7/sources/binutils-2.27/build': > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > See `config.log' for more details. What does this give you on the host? $ cat > hello.c << EOF #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World\n"); return 0; } EOF $ gcc -o hello hello.c $ ./hello -- Bruce ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support From: "Thanos Baloukas"<baloukast...@sch.gr> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 02:21:44 +0300 To: <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- On 02/09/2016 10:06 μμ, Rob wrote: > In chapter 6 of LFS, we have > "--disable-multilib" > specified in the configure instructions. What will happen if I don't include that? I have some programs that I want to run which are 32 bit, and require 32 bit libs. > AFAIK omitting this is needed to build a multilib compiler, but it's not enough. It needs more to achieve this. Try Google. -- Thanos ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support From: "Hazel Russman"<hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 07:35:04 +0100 To: <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 02:21:44 +0300 Thanos Baloukas <baloukast...@sch.gr> wrote: > On 02/09/2016 10:06 μμ, Rob wrote: > > In chapter 6 of LFS, we have > > "--disable-multilib" > > specified in the configure instructions. What will happen if I don't include that? I have some programs that I want to run which are 32 bit, and require 32 bit libs. > > > AFAIK omitting this is needed to build a multilib compiler, > but it's not enough. It needs more to achieve this. Try Google. > > -- > Thanos > -- I don't think you can do multilib in LFS. You need to use CLFS. Hazel ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== ========================= Forwarded message ========================= Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support From: "Thanos Baloukas"<baloukast...@sch.gr> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 10:35:42 +0300 To: <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> ------------------------- Contents ------------------------- On 03/09/2016 09:35 πμ, Hazel Russman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 02:21:44 +0300 > Thanos Baloukas <baloukast...@sch.gr> wrote: > >> On 02/09/2016 10:06 μμ, Rob wrote: >>> In chapter 6 of LFS, we have >>> "--disable-multilib" >>> specified in the configure instructions. What will happen if I don't include that? I have some programs that I want to run which are 32 bit, and require 32 bit libs. >>> >> AFAIK omitting this is needed to build a multilib compiler, >> but it's not enough. It needs more to achieve this. Try Google. >> >> -- >> Thanos >> -- > I don't think you can do multilib in LFS. You need to use CLFS. > > Hazel > This is what I meant saying "it needs more to achieve this". Not sure about CLFS. Sometime ago Armin's instructions on https://github.com/elkrejzi worked for me. I don't know if they still do. -- Thanos ====================== End of Forwarded Mail ====================== -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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