On Jan 24, 2012 7:32 PM, "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mario Meier wrote:
> > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> Mario Meier wrote:
> >>> !! I am not english native speaker. I am from Austria and maybe I
> >>> will post sentences that are grammatically wrong. Please ask me if
> >>> you do not understand me.
> >> Sometimes non-native speakers know more about our language than
> >> native-speakers. :)
> >>
> >>> I have a big problem. I already tried to build LFS multiple times. My
> >>> current try is from a VirtualBox VM with a Win7 host and an openSUSE
> >>> guest system.
> >>>
> >>> I put the source tarballs to a directory on the host system
> >>> (accessable as shared folder at /mnt/host), but I use the LINUX tar
> >>> to extract the archives. I know that using Windows applications may
> >>> cause errors.
> >>>
> >>> I have extracted GCC to /mnt/lfs/sources (I will call it /sources in
> >>> the rest of the mail) and have set the $src variable to /mnt/host.
> >>>
> >>> I always used this command to extract an archive:
> >>>
> >>> tar -xvaf <package>*.tar*
> >>>
> >>> That should allow me to leave out the version number and the
> >>> compression file extension. The -a flag means that TAR automatically
> >>> detects the compression method.
> >>> In the german support channel, they told me to leave out -a. I did so
> >>> and also left out the stars and wrote the full path.
> >> The -a is not necessary. I don't really care to watch the output of
tar
> >> any more, so I just use 'tar -xf $DIR/$PROGRAM.tar.?z*' in my scripts.
> >> That gets .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz. It misses the occasional
.tgz.
> >>
> >>> I had tested if that worked. It now says, "libmprf not found or uses
> >>> different ABI"
> >>>
> >>> Could you help me please?
> >> I'm not sure what your question is. You have openSUSE and it doesn't
> >> extract the tarfiles? What version of tar do you have? 'tar
--version'.
> >>
> >
> > My question is that it does not find MPFR!
> > I am sorry, I did not read through the message before sending it.
> > What my question is: Why does the GCC compilation brake?
> > I am in 'make' process and it says it does not find libmpfr!
>
> You probably didn't follow the instructions in section 5.3:
>
> 1. Extract the package, in this case gcc.
> 2. Change to the directory created when the package was extracted.
>
> Now follow the instructions:
> tar -jxf ../mpfr-3.1.0.tar.bz2
> mv -v mpfr-3.1.0 mpfr
>
../ needs to be replaced with $src/
e.g.
tar -xf $src/mpfr-3.1.0.tar.bz2
or, symlink everything before extraction
ln -s $src/* .
tar -xf gcc*tar.*z*
cd gcc-<version>
this way the commands in the book will work without needing to manually
adapt them
> etc
>
> You probably missed step 2.
>
> > My TAR Version:
> >
> > tar (GNU tar) 1.26
>
> That's fine.
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