Ron Hartikka wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> OK. I'll look at akh's suggstion in my next session.
>
> I already did a similar thing, actually.
>
> I think this was in 5.9 binutils pass 2.
>
> I set the environment variables - like 'export CC=$LFS_TGT-gcc' one at a
> time.

You really don't want to do that.  It has the potential to cause 
problems in other packages.  Just pass them to make like the book describes.

> Then I pasted the whole configure command into a file and bashed it.
>
> Another thing that might have been important in getting me through 5.9:
> logging out of lfs user and back in.
>
> I did this (prior to my succesful retry of 5.9) because in section 5.10 the
> instruction...
>
> *Before starting to build GCC, remember to unset any environment variables
> that override the default optimization flags.*
>
> ... and thought it might be a good thing.

Ya think?

> It would be nice if you could say that each section is independent in the
> sense that you could reboot and folllow a fixed setup procedure between
> each section.
>
> Is it true? What's the procedure?

When you change to the lfs user, it should only set environment 
variables in ~lfs/.bashrc.

   -- Bruce
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