(LFS) - Linux From Scratch is a Linux distribution that you build from source (scratch) piece by piece.
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Can I name my own LFS distro?
The question is... about LFS (Linux From Scratch), if I would build a Linux system, with LFS, is it 100% mine? Could I say I made all this from scratch?
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Changing the defult directory structure
If I start a new distro (e.g. LFS):
How can I change the directory structure?
What should I expect after it's ready? (probably can't install most of the packages without modification, right?
But, ...
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LFS System not booting or GRUB cannot access /bood/grub on boot
The closest question I could find is this one, however it is still quite a bit different from what I am needing: GRUB fails to install
My specific setup and the steps I followed to produce this
I am ...
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Why binutils and gcc need to install twice in LFS?
I followed LFS doc.
I'm not quite understand why it needs 2 pass of compilation.
My guess:
We need target system's glibc, if we compile by host's gcc, it will not be able to separate with host ...
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How can I solve this make error when building gcc-4.7.2 for LFS?
Everything was going so well...
I'm trying to build gcc-4.7.2, following the instructions in the LFS book. When I run make, I get the following:
checking for MPFR... no
configure: error: libmpfr ...
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How would I start this public LFS build project?
I had an idea. I want a box with some simple Linux distro on there. I want the box to be completely open to anyone. The idea is, I want to see if a community of online users can build LFS on the ...
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Linux From Scratch 7.2:Error while making binutils-2.22 in chapter 6
I get the following error while executing make tooldir=/usr
../../binutils-2.22/libiberty/regex.c:130:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
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Do I only need one swap partition for multiple Linux distros? (and other questions)
I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive.
I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this ...
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Linux From Scratch: make no such file or directory, bad interpreter [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Getting “Not found” message when running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system
I have finished the chapter 5 of the book.
And after I entered the chroot I realized that ...
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Eglibc cannot compile suffix of object files while trying to cross compile
I'm currently making my way through Trac's CLFS book.
When trying to configure the 32-bit version of EGLIBC-2.15, using the options:
BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD32}" \
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Build complete Distro with LFS
I want to build distro from source with LFS. Which include default third party tools & tools from different Linux distro. I have following questions:
Can I build with LFS?
Using LFS can I make ...
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libbfd-2.22.so missing while compiling Binutils/Glibc/Zlib
When I try to compile Binutils, Glibc and Zlib using chroot on my LFS system, I get this error:
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.22.so: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
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Why .bash_profile couldn't set PS1 variable?
I set .bash_profile to
exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=vt100 PS1='\h' /bin/bash
But when I login, it also show:
lfs@sam:~$ env
TERM=vt100
PWD=/home/lfs
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Why lfs couldn't use original host environment variables?
From the lfs doc:
The exec env -i.../bin/bash command in the .bash_profile replaces
the running shell with a new one with a completely empty
environment, except for the HOME, TERM, and ...
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LFS can't cd to lfs/source - permission denied
I'm trying to build a LFS using version 7.1. I've followed all of the steps up to 5.3 and now I'm stuck because I can't change to $LFS/sources - I get the message:
bash: cd: /mnt/lfs/sources: ...
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Linux from Binaries
I thought Linux from Scratch was a pretty cool tutorial, but I felt having to wait for everything to compile was a bit nerve-wreaking.
Is there a tutorial similar to LFS except pre-compiled binaries ...
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Cross LFS - PPC - Error while compiling
I'm trying to build a CLFS for a PPC 8270 processor. All is fine until I use the make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=${CLFS_TARGET}- command.
CC arch/powerpc/kernel/align.o
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LiveCD for LFS 7.0
Most of the live CD systems I have come across don't seem to have the LFS requirements pre-installed (i.e. everything on this list).
Are there any live CD systems that come with the required software ...
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How do I search for Linux distro build tools?
After having worked through Linux From Scratch, I get the eerie feeling that in practice, this is not how new distros are built.
How do I search for tools that other distributions are built with? Is ...
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Linux from scratch's bash problem: $() syntax error
When I try to build the glibc following the Linux from scratch instruction Chapter 6.9. Glibc-2.14.1, I get a syntax error about $(command).
The simplified problem is that I can type
echo `ls`
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Thunar using no thumbnailers except built in fonts and images
Linux From Scratch SVN-20111010
Beyond Linux From Scratch Version 2011-11-16
Xfce4 4.8.0
I can't get any thumbnails in Thunar beyond fonts and basic images.
After fighting with this I've gone back ...
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How to configure Tcl on Linux From Scratch?
I got this error following LFS 6.8, chapter 5, Tcl-8.5.10 to install Tcl:
lfs@sam:/mnt/lfs/sources/tcl8.5.9/tools$ ./configure --prefix=/tools
./configure: line 1208: cd: ../../tcl8.5/unix: No such ...
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How to set parameter i486 on glibc compiling process of x86_64 system?
My host:
lfs@sam:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$ uname -m
x86_64
lfs@sam:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$
In lfs(LFS-BOOK-6.8-HTML/chapter05/glibc.html)
It says
case `uname -m` in
i?86) ...
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Why is there a '.d' in 'init.d'? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does the .d stand for in directory names?
Consider that we have (on many sytems) init.d that contains executable scripts and symbolic links for run levels, sysctl.d ...
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Will I be able to build LFS using dash and mawk?
I decided that I want to learn more about Linux and try building LFS. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 as host system and Ubuntu uses dash and mawk by default. I've changed mawk to gawk, but considering that ...
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DocBook DSSSL test failure
So I followed these (Linux From Scratch) instructions to test my build of DocBook DSSSL, and I get this:
$ onsgmls -sv test.sgm
onsgmls:I: "OpenSP" version "1.5.2"
onsgmls:test.sgm:1:61:W: cannot ...
