Re: Bleeding eyes.

The LFS book I used (5.1) was more than enough documentation. I'm on an x86
box, i686. Everything compiled alright i guess. Where i did run into errors
was, coreutils needs perl 5.8.4 to compile correctly, and the latest perl is
5.8.5. In a laps i downloaded 5.8.5 and tried to use that, gave me lots of
headaches, but when i finally figured out what was wrong, it hunted for an
older version of perl. I've been told that 5.8.5 works fine with lfs 5.1, but
not in my experiance. Also, run make distclean every time after you configure
the source the first time. On the 3rd pass on some programs, (after i
chrooted into the new system) I got errors that were full of prechrooted
config. For example, before i chrooted into the new system i had to build
something, say, binutils. I configured it, installed it, but after i
chrooted into the new environment, i still had legacy /mnt/lfs config stuff.
Took me over 2 hours to figure out, make distclean.

LFS calls for grub, and linux 2.4.26. I used 2.4.26 kernel headers. But my
host system is still the primary system on this box, so i just added the lfs
system to lilo using several of the existing kernels on the host system
(read: set up lfs with 2.4.22, 2.6.8.1) LFS root partition is /dev/hdb1
so:
image = /boot/bzImage-2.6.8.1
        root = /dev/hdb1
        label = 2.6.8.1-lfs
        read-only

Booted into the lfs system fine, but couldn't really do anything with it. I
never installed grub, i think it's spiffy, but, not much advantage over lilo
for what i do. The lfs book tells you everything you need to know besides the
bit above. That's the first open source docs i've ever seen that i completely
understood. I think i'm going to take a break before i start BLFS, my ibook
is just getting out of the shop today. (thank god for warentee) Hope this
helped you.

Whitty

On Friday 20 August 2004 13:27, captgoodnight@acsalaska.net wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2004 01:09 pm, whitty reeve wrote:
> > Compiling everything from source makes my eyes bleed.
> > Dear god, make it stop, please make it stop!
> >
> > Heh, i started an LFS (linux from scratch) build, and it works like a
> > charm. I spent 3 days compiling a system that has NOTHING to it. So, now
> > that I've build a nothing system, i have to go through BLFS (beyond linux
> > from scratch) to get an actual useable system.
> >
> > Now comes the important part: Linux from scratch wasn't nearly as hard as
> > i thought it would be, besides a few errors that took a while to work
> > around., there was nothing to it. It was....extremely monotonous. The
> > main reason i started was because I was getting fed up with the little
> > things about slackware. So, I decided that i would start from scratch,
> > and here you have it. Great learning experiance. I think that everybody
> > should create one sooner or later, just for the learning experiance.
> >
> > Whitty
>
> YEAH! It's ABSOLUTELY in my future. Right not it's only a line in the "In
> The Future" list though.
>
> questions:
> What kinda hardware is it on?
> What was the hardest thing to config?
> What kernel?
> How helpful are the docs/forums? Any gotchas?
> Anything ya can think of...
>
> bests,
> eddie
>
> PS: congrats ;)
>
>
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Received on Fri Aug 20 15:49:59 2004