On Friday 04 September 2009 14:07, Jim McConville wrote: > Ref: BLFS svn-20090901 autofs-5.0.3 > > When I try to compile autofs-5..0.3 I am getting the following: > > In file included from cache.c:28: > ../include/automount.h:54:2: error: #error Failed to verify existence of > procfs filesystem! > make[1]: *** [cache.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/autofs-5.0.3/lib' > make: *** [daemon] Error 2 > > This endeavor is being done in a LFS-6.5 system. > The /etc/mtab is: > /dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > > This is commensurate with /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda6 /sources ext3 defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda5 swap swap pri=1 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > I can't determine if this message is supposed to be: > proc fs or procfs . When copied it appears as displayed above. > > In any case I have tried compiling autofs-6.03 from scratch several times > and I always get the same result. Any suggestions as to the source of > problem or a solution would be appreciated. > > Jim McConville
I have resolved the problem. It appears that it is in the file "/autofs-5.03/aclocal.m4" where the existance of "proc fs" is determined. Actually the process is to determine the existance of the file "/proc/filesystem". Because the compilation of autofs-5.0.3 was done in the "LFS-6.5 chroot" environment the '/proc' directory was not populated. To complete the compilation the computer was rebooted into LFS-6.5 and the "configuration" and "install" related commands were executed successfully from within /autofs-5.0.3. Comments 1.I have not examined BLFS svn-20090901 to determine if there are restrictions in compiling software in the "chroot" environment. 2. Perhaps autofs-5.0.3 needs a patch to alleviate this problem. It presently has 67 patches. Jim McConville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
