hi friends ,


i m keyur.i m developing a new distribution using base system as Red Hat 9.0 and using LFS5.1.1.

while compiling glibc2-3-3-LFS5.1 using the command ...

"lfs:/mnt/lfs/glibc-build$ ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-profile --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads --with-binutils=/tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include --without-gd --without-cvs"

i am getting error as below:

"configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory"

i made new directory /mnt/lfs/glibc-build ... extracted all files in this folder and same error as mentioned above.
please help me how to go about it.

Thank You In Advance,
KEYUR

Create an empty directory, cd into that directory, and run the configure script (from inside that dir) as:

/mnt/lfs/glibc-build/configure .... <other params here>

Or perhaps you might consider doing it the way the book says...

Advice: just follow the book

a little advice which will make things easier - especially later on - when you have finished the temporary system and are in chroot:

create a separate directory (for instance /mnt/lfs/sources ) where you then put all your sources and build them - this way they are out of the way and not all mixed up with the directories of your LFS-system

The reason: now you are installing everything into /mnt/lfs/tools - but later you create the real system under /mnt/lfs/... - that is where now all your sources are - it will work but will not look nice...

look in: Chapter 4. Final Preparations...

I think the book forgot to mention this step - it is in the newer versions though

mkdir $LFS/sources
chown lfs $LFS/sources

in this separate directory - unpack glibc-2.3.3-lfs-5.1 (as well as all your other software...)

cd into this newly created directory

from there issue the commands to create a separate build-directory and then to cd into that

mkdir ../glibc-build
cd ../glibc-build


you are now in /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build

then issue the configure-command as the book says - and it will work

../glibc-2.3.3-lfs-5.1/configure --prefix=/tools \
--disable-profile --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads \
--with-binutils=/tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include \
--without-gd --without-cvs

u can resolve this problem by simple command



yum install glibc