linuxfromscratch
As day two concluded on my first attempt at compiling a linuxfromscratch system, I find myself slamming my head against the proverbial binary gods. Completing this system is no small task and requires extremely precise steps that if one fails, the entire build fails. I must have magically misinterpreted one of these steps and have botched the whole thing up.
I was successfull all the way past chapter 5, good through chrooting into the temp system, then all failed when compiling GCC in chapter 6. For some reason a group of header files where missing either from the gcc sources or my specified path and ultimately forced me to start over. Hopefully focusing a bit harder will allow me to identify the error.
Some of these packages take literally days of non-stop cpu processing to complete and any errors serve to waste all that effort and patience. I found a glitch in a provided script that is supposed to update the listed dynamic linker within the lfs environment, but unfortunately it updated my host system’s linker instead. I’m not sure if building after this erroneous change was the culprit or not, but I will fix this error this time around and we’ll see. I did notice that upon restarting the second build I was unable to make C packages until correcting the dynamic linker issue.
[sarcasm] I’m sure everyone is as excited about this as I am [/sarcasm]
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