file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-11-30 Thread Kevin Barnard
OK I thought I'd try to run through the LFS install. I'm using a basic Fedora Code 4 host minimal install with a few extra RPMs so I can build. Binutils pass 1 makes and installs but I get the following when I try to create a LIB_PATH version of ld. The same basic error happens when I try to com

Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-12-01 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 00:15:36 -0600 Kevin Barnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I thought I'd try to run through the LFS install. I'm using a > basic Fedora Code 4 host minimal install with a few extra RPMs so I > can build. This is a FAQ. FC4 isn't a suitable host distro. Read FAQ. Search ar

Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-12-01 Thread Andrew Benton
Kevin Barnard wrote: OK I thought I'd try to run through the LFS install. I'm using a basic Fedora Code 4 host minimal install with a few extra RPMs so I can build. Binutils pass 1 makes and installs but I get the following when I try to create a LIB_PATH version of ld. The same basic error ha

Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Barnard
Thanks for the tip.  Late at night I must of missed the FAQ and for that matter the entire support page.  Reinstall to a different disro no problem.  I have a debian copy sitting around.  Guess this is what I get for being lazy and not wanting to reinstall the toy/learning machine. :-) On 12/1/05,

Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/1/05, Kevin Barnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/1/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, Kevin. Please don't top post and trim your reply to only what's relevant. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/f

FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Andrew Benton wrote: Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It should work OK for the development version but that may not be suitable if it's your first attempt at LFS. I've had good results bui

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:04:50 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > > Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 > > isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It > > should work OK for the development vers

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard and folks, > IIRC, Fedora patches the hell out of GCC-4 so that it isn't a regular > GCC-4 anymore. I don't feel up to searching out all the threads on > this. I think the best advice is still 'Don't build LFS from FC-4'. > > R. I'm prepared to have another round on building LFS -->

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Hari
On 12/2/05, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any other recommendation? OR is there any opinon on this > newly released Slackware 10.2. Why don't you just use the LiveCD? Miken -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Hari, > Why don't you just use the LiveCD? Oh, yes. I have LFS-LiveCD 6.1-3 here. I can't remember exactly whether it is necessary to intall it on the HD. OR just run it on the PC to install LFS on the empty HD, preformatted. I suppose I saw this posting before, installing LFS direct fro

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: I don't think, blah, blah... probably not the place to ask. Why are you posting this to LFS-Dev? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Benton
Stephen Liu wrote: is there any opinon on this newly released Slackware 10.2. Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel before you start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/list

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread silverspurg
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.htm

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Hari, Why don't you just use the LiveCD? Oh, yes. I have LFS-LiveCD 6.1-3 here. I can't remember exactly whether it is necessary to intall it on the HD. OR just run it on the PC to install LFS on the empty HD, preformatted. I suppose I saw this posting before, inst

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, > No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the > point > of the LiveCD. Tks for your advice. I found the document; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/install-lfs-from-livecd.txt By Joseph M. Dupré DATE: 2005-08-13 SYNOPSIS: How to build a LFS 6

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Chris, No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the LiveCD. Tks for your advice. I found the document; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/install-lfs-from-livecd.txt By Joseph M. Dupré DATE: 2005-08-13 SYNOPSIS: How

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, > No, don't use that hint - it gives bad advice. Just boot from the > livecd, copy source files from /sources to $LFS/sources, and do > everything else by the book. OK. Noted with tks. BR SL -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread silverspurg
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. I've built with 2.4. :) Steven http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html I have to assume that

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Barnard
I used 6.1.1  that has the patch.  (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/binutils-pass1.html)  This patched 2 files I think, I'm at work away from the machine so I can't check for sure until later. The normal make works fine and ld does compile and install.  It's the secondary

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Barnard
I think you are right about GCC most of that I think is around GCJ (loads of fun)  I'll play around with the newer bintools and gcc and see if I get anywhere with this.  Worst case is I run into another wall and have to start over with a more sane distro.  In either case I'll let you know the resul

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Kevin Barnard wrote: I think you are right about GCC most of that I think is around GCJ (loads of fun) 1) Please don't post in HTML 2) Please don't top-post http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/index.html#netiquette -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http:/

RE: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Richard Westfield
> No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of > the LiveCD. That's not true. I've got the LiveCD installed on a partition, and have been using that for my builds. LFS 6.1 is the only distro I've found, in my very quick research, that met all of the host require

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Richard Westfield wrote: No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the LiveCD. That's not true. I've got the LiveCD installed on a partition, and have been using that for my builds. LFS 6.1 is the only distro I've found, in my very quick research, that met al

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Hari
On 12/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel > > Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? Just for academic interest, I bought an 8 proc IBM eServe

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Ken Fuchs
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: >> >>> Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 >>> kernel >> >> Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? Andy wrote: >For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. N