6.7.1. Installation of Linux API Headers

gclark14 · 10-18-2019, 06:35 PM

Hey guys. Currently running in the chrooted environment. I see we are to run make on the directory that I understand to be $LFS/sources/Linux-5.2.8. Problem is I deleted the directory after making in chapter 5. Was I not supposed to be deleting these directories after each compilation? It said to delete it unless otherwise told not to. With that being said, what would my steps be to remedying this situation?

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...x-headers.html

spiky0011 · 10-19-2019, 11:15 AM

Hi
You will still have the linux tarball, just re untar again, and do this with all the packages. Yes you are correct to remove the untarred dir wwhen it is built.

gclark14 · 10-19-2019, 12:04 PM

Ok great thank you. I’ll have to switch user to lfs in order to decompress the files. Should not be a problem correct?

spiky0011 · 10-19-2019, 12:07 PM

root will untar them

gclark14 · 10-19-2019, 12:15 PM

Am I not supposed to be using root in the chrooted environment? When trying to untar them I end up with

Code:

(lfs chroot) root:/sources# ls linux-5.2.8.tar.xz       
linux-5.2.8.tar.xz
(lfs chroot) root:/sources# tar -xvf linux-5.2.8.tar.xz 
tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
(lfs chroot) root:/sources#

spiky0011 · 10-19-2019, 12:31 PM

FYI
chroot is root, something else has gone wrong, proberbly ch 6.6

spiky0011 · 10-19-2019, 12:51 PM

did you reboot before starting ch 6?

gclark14 · 10-19-2019, 12:53 PM

Not specifically between chapters 5 and chapter 6. I had rebooted previously though.

spiky0011 · 10-19-2019, 01:12 PM

reboot the system
set LFS for root
mount lfs partition
do ch6.2.2 and 6.2.3 and then chroot in again

gclark14 · 10-19-2019, 01:40 PM

So strange I did try that again to no avail. I think at this point it wouldn't hurt to start from scratch. A good learning experience on the second pass.

hendrickxm · 10-19-2019, 03:32 PM

If you have to start from scratch, save some time and try using Keith's tools-tarballs from his LiveCD project. 8.2 can be used to build either systemd/sysV. 9.0 can only be used for sysV, as is because ch5 sysV no longer has util-linux. You could however build it once chrooted.
Set the $LFS, make the /mnt/lfs/tools dir, untar the tools tarball to /mnt/lfs/tools and continue from ch6.2.
And yes, you should always remove the dir from an untarred source after installing the package.
So basically untar, make, make install and remove the dir.

Keith Hedger · 10-20-2019, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hendrickxm

... 9.0 can only be used for sysV, as is because ch5 sysV no longer has util-linux ...

Noticed util-linux was dropped from tool chain, i have no interest in systemd but i will put util-linux back into the 9.0 tools on the cd, 'cos i'm a nice guy

i need to make some minor tweaks to it anyway, i'll post in the bootcd thread when its done. Thanks for that info.