Richard wrote: > Hello experts, > > I am attempting my first LFS build; which will (hopefully) be 7.4, > built on a host system of slackware-14. > > All went well up until chapter 6. I am unsure as to whether or not > the errors in the glibc fall into the acceptable variety or not. > > glibc appeared to build well enough. Having tried the test suites > (with TIMEOUTFACTOR=16 - this is a humble machine), the make - k > check ends with:
> /source/glibc-build/begin-end-check.out make[1]: Target `check' not > remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory > `/source/glibc-2.18' This is normal. Some checks always fail so you see that message. > When I look for just the errors, using 'grep -i error > glibc-check-log' I find: > > [/source/glibc-build/rt/tst-cputimer1.out] Error 1 > [/source/glibc-build/conform/run-conformtest.out] Error 1 > I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' > might be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test > suite ended mid-way. It didn't. It finished running. > I am also assuming that glibc is one of the packages that can safely > be installed to a fake root - then tarballed 'slackware style'? (i.e: > I am intending that my next step would be make DESTDIR=dest install), > rather then installing directly. glibc is the 'Rosetta stone' of the system. There is rarely a requirement to update it. If you do need to update it, it's time to rebuild the whole system. I went from 2005 to 2012 on one system before I needed to update. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page