[Clfs-support] coreutils-6.12 and hosts using older 2.6 kernels

[John]

Many thanks William for your warning.

I have started a build of the latest book using kernel 2.4.33.3 as host.
I have just come as far as the end of chapter 5.
Obviously I am planning to boot not chroot.
The build is absolute standard 32 bit i486.

Would you or anyone else be as good as to expand on this problem
 and any other problems I might be facing.
 At what point in the book do I use this?

Here is what I am doing :-
I took the hard disk out of the target and put it in the host as hdb.
I am building CLFS directly on it.
The disk has had lilo installed previously to master boot record.
It has a boot partition first.
The aim is to put it back in the target and boot.

Gratefull for any help.

John

John Walton


William Harrington wrote :-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Harrington" <wwh04660 at ucmo.edu>
To: "CLFS Support" <clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:17 PM
Subject: [Clfs-support] coreutils-6.12 and hosts using older 2.6 kernels


> Greetings,
>
>
>      I'm always seeing how old of a host I can use to build CLFS
> development. Using an old LFS 6.0 livecd
> at the moment.
>
> The fault that the host OS is running an older kernel which does not
> support utimensat is not proper.
> The fault is with a commit in coreutils which causes the check to
> still return ENOSYS on systems
> that don't support utimensat.
>
> Here is a problem, the way
>
>
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=faeb3e6b2191565dc3197804cd9ff624f26a1004
>
> Do we need to include a note for those using kernels where utimensat
> isn't in the kernel ( I think since 2.6.22 or somewhere around there
> and earlier), or have an optional patch (if this, then do this)?
>
> If the user builds coreutils-6.12 without editing lib/config.h to
> undefine the futimensat option, then touch will not
> work properly when building glibc. Glibc will error with touch: blah
> blah function not implemented.
>
> -William Harrington
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