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!