LFS - about 30 Autoconf files and how to do the patches
 

Hey,

First of all, I'm Sjors Snoeren, a 16 year old webdeveloper, I got my own company called Rockweb, see http://www.rockweb.nl, I'm from holland as you may see on my web URL. I'm a big Mac OSX and Linux fan, I know Strange combination. I'm wanting to create my own OS so,

I'm using LFS, but struggling yet,
I've installed the WGET-list, but when I cd to the $LFS I see much .tar.gz files like it have to, but I see also about 30 Autconf.tar.gz.1 and tar.gz.2 and so on, is it meant so or did I do sth wrong?

Also the patches, need they be to installed manually? Or is there a program or a patch-list like the wget-list?

Thnx for reading, and I hope someone can help me out!

Hi/Hoi Sjors-rw,

Welcome to LQ!

Something must have gone wrong. Have a look at the content of the wget-list file, all packages/patches should be mentioned just once.

The command given in the book to get the files (wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources) also works as it supposed to.

You did follow the instructions in the book?

When a patch needs installing it is explained on the page (Example: 5.5 GCC - Pass 1).

BTW: Links provided assume latest stable LFS (7.1 at this moment).

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Just asked a moderator to move this to the LFS sub-forum.

Welcome to LQ.Something is probably wrong.
run
It will either throw up loads of crap, or nothing. If it throws up nothing, you can probably delete most of them. But check the length
wget could have been retrying if that was set. I don't know the script. Make sure the one you keep has the right md5sum.

I think not. I think they are done one at a time. If you're doing manual (Best way to learn) the commands are in the book. If you are using the build script on the cd, it patches them before the compile.

What I did I copied the url with the wget's to the command instead of wget-list.

for the patches, I don't have to do anything right now? If I understand you correctly.

Hi,
Follow the book, it works :)

Nope, when the time comes you will notice.

Look, this is my problem:

http://cl.ly/F0UI

Any ideas, the rest seams OK.

Hi,

Well, if you do not follow the book (why not?? problem would be solved....) and don't tell us which commands you actually used we cannot help you.

What does this mean: Please post the exact commands you used, only that way we might be able to explain why it behaves the way it does.

I followed the book, it says:

Wget-list was not found so I used:

That's the right way to do it? I think the book is not explaining enough detail about that kind of things.

Hi,
Nope.

Download and store the wget-list file. From the location you stored the wget-list file issue the wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources command.

Hope this helps.

How can I remove multiple files easy? Can I get in filemanager to do so? With Terminal it takes a alot of time...

Hi,
LFS is meant to be build from a console/terminal.

Assuming you want to remove all (!!) the files in $LFS/sources (as root user): A little warning: If you are not familiar enough with the CLI to know this you will have a real hard time building a LFS system.

Hope this helps.

But that's why I wanted to build one, to learn.

So, struggled upon another problem, In chapter 4 you have to Export $LFS to /mnt/lfs, I did that but the pakages are still on $LFS... Is that a problem?

Hi,

The packages you downloaded should reside in $LFS/sources, not $LFS (as mentioned in chapter 3). During chapter 4 and 5 the base you are building from is stored in the LFS variable (for most people this variable will contain /mnt/lfs).

The export command doesn't have anything to do with that. The export part of the command makes sure that this variable (LFS) is also present in the sub-shells that are used during the build.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, I've managed to do it correcly, now I'm inn chapter 5.

Now I'm seeing:
This kinda commands:

mkdir -v ../binutils-build
cd ../binutils-build

but which directory the book is using to fill that in because ../ means two directorys back in HTML/CSS I think here is the same?

So do I have to be in $LFS/sources or what?