Cannot find m4-1.4.18 in chapter 6

100shrimp · 02-17-2018, 07:27 PM

We are working through LFS for our first time and have made it to chapter six. We are having trouble finding m4-1.4.18 to complete section 6.14. We downloaded earlier on in the book. We're not positive if we configured it properly in chapter five. What should we do now?

Mill J · 02-17-2018, 07:41 PM

I'd make sure the environment variables are still as they were when you were building chapter 5, than build 5.27, before continuing with chapter 6.

100shrimp · 02-17-2018, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Mill J

I'd make sure the environment variables are still as they were when you were building chapter 5, than build 5.27, before continuing with chapter 6.

We found that the environment variable was not set up so we ran export LFS=/mnt/lfs. echo $LFS shows /mnt/lfs now but we still cant find m4-1.4.18. Is there another step we need to take?

Mill J · 02-17-2018, 08:32 PM

exit your chroot environment, return to chapter 4.3 and run the last command in that section(su - lfs).

Then make sure you're environment variables are right.

Next continue to chapter 5.27 and build m4.

Run exit to exit lfs account.

Finally return to your chroot.

Hope this helps.

100shrimp · 02-17-2018, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mill J

exit your chroot environment, return to chapter 4.3 and run the last command in that section(su - lfs).

Then make sure you're environment variables are right.

Next continue to chapter 5.27 and build m4.

Run exit to exit lfs account.

Finally return to your chroot.

Hope this helps.

We exited the chroot environment and logged in to lfs. Now, after downloading m4-1.4.18, we're not able to configure the file. Configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables.

Mill J · 02-17-2018, 09:05 PM

While logged in as lfs what does echo $PATH return?

100shrimp · 02-17-2018, 09:08 PM

It returns /tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

Mill J · 02-17-2018, 09:15 PM

Did you change the owner of the m4 folder to lfs via chown?

100shrimp · 02-17-2018, 09:38 PM

we tried changing the ownership but it said lfs was an invalid user, but we're pretty inexperienced with chown. We put in chown lfs:lfs m4-1.4.18

Mill J · 02-17-2018, 10:50 PM

So you tried to run sudo while logged in as lfs? lfs is not a member of the sudo group therefore log out and as your regular user run sudo chown. Then log back in as lfs.

Also what is your host system?