Indeed it seems rather important to follow this suggestion. When I first built an LFS system I used a suse system to build with. I can't remember the exact version, but it was some time ago before the novell buyout. Anyhow that build went fine. Since then I have taken to using debian on a few of my systems. I began a build friday using one of those systems. This ended in failures on glibc during building the temporary system. I went round and round looking for problems in other parts of the build leading up to glibc. Untill finally I decided to boot from an LFS live cd. Low and behold the compile completed without error.
Anyhow it would seem a lot of heartache would have been avoided had I simply started from the cd to begin with. Sometimes these things just make me feel like an idiot. :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld -----Original Message----- From: Robert Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:31:55 To:Hardened LFS Development List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: journal LFS (6.x), and HLFS, are the only supported host system for HLFS, partially because of things like this, and also because of trust. We want the host system to have Scrt1.o, for example, and to expect the Glibc tests pass the host system kernel should be vanilla, and then there's the bug below. Using LFS or HLFS as the host system is the only way to be sure that the host system is going to support the build of largely vanilla packages. Despite saying this, I've never had a problem with Slackware. robert On Monday September 3 2007 10:24:37 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I don't believe this is exclusive to my system, but that is possible. > >> > Otherwise, these issues are really a bit much for me to debug. > >> > > >> > Marty B. > > > > FWIW, I got a similar error from installing a distro (not hlfs)on a > > preformatted ext3 drive which I got rid of by removing and recreating > > the journal. I wonder if ext3 has broken compatibility with earlier > > versions recently? > > I found some traffic on this issue in the LKML and GLIBC list. It seems > some patches have introduced structure incompatabilities with previous > EXT3 filesystems. However; Ext3 does appear to work fine on a native > hlfs filesystem. I think this warrants disclosure in the book. > > Marty B -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
