Mak­ing pro­gress. Cur­rently re-building everything in shared mode.…

Gonna leave gcc build­ing overnight…

Back to Linux From Scratch tonight after a five day absence. More later

Well with my birth­day over the week­end and hack­ing php tonight, I’ve not made any pro­gress on the install­a­tion of Linux From Scratch. I’ll get back to it tomorrow.

For now, I’m off to bed…

Later days,
Mike

Great. I left glibc run­ning overnight and it’s com­pleted ok now.

Way hey! I rebuilt gawk (hav­ing had to change the own­er­ship back from root to lfs) and this time I man­aged to do the build cor­rectly. I guess I must have missed off the LDFLAGS=-static last time round.

My first real prob­lem with Linux From Scratch. I’d got to the build­ing glibc part when it failed half way through. It appears that gawk hasn’t built prop­erly. So when in the chrooted LFS par­ti­tion the glibc build pro­cess is unable to run gawk. Even when I try to run gawk from the com­mand line it fails. It sure looks like I didn’t build it prop­erly.
Ah ha! I’ve just checked, and file $LFS/usr/bin/gawk gives me ‘dynam­ic­ally linked’. Oops I did build it wrongly.
OK gonna step back and try to fix it.

Woo hoo! I’ve fin­ished chapter 5. I’m on to chapter 6 next (Duh!) “Installing basic sys­tem soft­ware”. No prob­lems so far. Things are still a little slower than expect­a­tions form the book. But it is an old machine!