LFS on vfat usb

[Southtown]

arg. ok can't make menuconfig.

make LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_ALL= menuconfig

returns

  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
/usr/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485c0
/bin/sh: line 1:  3919 Illegal instruction     scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/.fixdep.d scripts/basic/fixdep 'gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/basic/.fixdep.d -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer     -o scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c  ' > scripts/basic/.fixdep.tmp
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 132
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

I've also tried

make LANG=en_US LC_ALL= menuconfig

and just

make menuconfig

[alexander]

apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 build-essentials

then try again

[alexander]

assuming you are using ubuntu ofcourse here... let me know if you are using a different distro...

[Southtown]

Sorry, yeah I'm booting into a lfs-livecd iso on my hard drive. No package managers to work with. lol Plus I'm chrooted into it already at this point. The kernel and boot loader are pretty much all that's left.

The packages that I'm working with and some how could have messed up are

Binutils-2.18
GCC-4.3.2
Linux-2.6.27.4 API Headers
Glibc-2.8-20080929
Tcl-8.5.5
Expect-5.43.0
DejaGNU-1.4.4
Ncurses-5.6
Bash-3.2
Bzip2-1.0.5
Coreutils-6.12
Diffutils-2.8.1
E2fsprogs-1.41.3
Findutils-4.4.0
Gawk-3.1.6
Gettext-0.17
Grep-2.5.3
Gzip-1.3.12
M4-1.4.12
Make-3.81
Patch-2.5.4
Perl-5.10.0
Sed-4.1.5
Tar-1.20
Texinfo-4.13a
Util-linux-ng-2.14.1
Man-pages-3.11
GMP-4.2.4
MPFR-2.3.2
Berkeley DB-4.7.25
E2fsprogs-1.41.3
Iana-Etc-2.30
Bison-2.3
Procps-3.2.7
Libtool-2.2.6a
Zlib-1.2.3
Python-2.6.2
Readline-5.2
Autoconf-2.63
Automake-1.10.1
File-4.26
Flex-2.5.35
GRUB-0.97
Groff-1.18.1.4
Inetutils-1.5
IPRoute2-2.6.26
Kbd-1.14.1
Less-418
Man-DB-2.5.2
Module-Init-Tools-3.4.1
Psmisc-22.6
Shadow-4.1.2.1
Sysklogd-1.5
Sysvinit-2.86
Udev-130
Vim-7.2

[alexander]

yea you might need a few more packages I'd search lfs forums for the list...

[Southtown]

"But rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it.
And we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
-- The Architect

[alexander]

been there done that, i once had to rebuild a gentoo install 4 times because i kept on messing up messing up the architecture in gcc config...

[Southtown]

Yeah, I don't know how I ever got Gentoo installed. Following the Jackass walkthrough with a Gentoo tarball shouldn't have worked. But for reasons I can't remember both Gentoo/Gentoo and Jackass/Jackass failed. I still want to go back to Gentoo eventually but at the moment I want to try out all the other 'main' distros so I can have a better frame of reference.

About LFS, after I posted the make menuconfig trouble, I bzipped everything and started afresh with the dev release candidate, 6.5rc2, and I am now compiling the kernel. And of course, since I am a minimalist (as in minimal deviation from default) it didn't take me long to configure. I'm still browsing for kernel optimization howtos, though because I plan to recompile it again later on when I learn more.

I think the kernel config trouble that I had was probably related to the LANG= and RC_ALL= parameters. The site says, "This is needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface line drawing on UTF-8 linux text console." Well, I'm using ISO 8859-1 because I had problems with UTF-8 during one of my earliest attempts, so I left them both out this time, and voilà.

Hope my kernel boots.

[freeztar]

What about slackware?

[Southtown]

Originally Posted by freeztar

What about slackware?

Funny you should ask that. I figured LFS would teach me how to deal with slack. I installed it but I have trouble with just choosing packages out of a list, as opposed to installing stuff later as I need it.