[Clfs-dev] More issues with trunk

[Chris Staub]

On 10/01/2009 12:37 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
>  From my x86_64-64 build, which is now building its kernel:
>
> 2. e2fsprogs' configure fails because pkg-config is not installed.
> The easy option is to just add it, as in LFS.

This is already dealt with in the book by using PKG_CONFIG=true, though 
I agree it would be easier just to add pkg-config to the book.

> 3. I was unable to remove the coreutils directory after running
> its testsuite, and counldn't umount the filesystem (in use).  I
> happened to have lsof on the host, that said it couldn't stat
> a particular test file which it thought was a tmpfs (although it
> was within the coreutils tests directory) and labelled '(deleted).
> After remounting r/o during shutdown, and then rebooting, I
> was able to remove it.  Might be down to how I build, or might
> turn out to be a common problem.

Someone on the LFS lists reported the same problem a while back. I 
investigated and found that the Coreutils testsuite does mount something 
in its source dir, though it should also be unmounted as well. I have 
not figured out why it would not be unmounted - presumably the only 
reason for that would be that the testsuite (or that particular test) 
didn't finish. I did run across the problem once myself, though that was 
while I was testing dependencies and had deliberately left out some 
programs to see what would happen.

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2009-March/062643.html

> 4. The iputils man-pages are not in doc/ : the patch creates
> them in the top-level directory, so change
> install -v -m644 doc/*.8 /usr/share/man/man8
> to
> install -v -m644 *.8 /usr/share/man/man8

They are in doc/* for me. Did you use -Np0 or -Np1 on that patch?

> 5. In general, I see no point in commenting on testsuites
> unless the book is near to a release, but I think the
> following are worth noting:
>
> 5.1 coreutils failed in the gnulib tests -
>     CC     read-file.o
> read-file.c:136: fatal error: opening dependency file
> .deps/read-file.Tpo: Permission denied
> compilation terminated.
> make[5]: *** [read-file.o] Error 1

This should be covered by the chown command in the Coreutils instructions.

>
> ĸen