[Devil-linux-develop] RE: some problems with the build/install process

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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Shing-Gene Yung wrote:
 > I'm just getting started in building 0.6beta from cvs (using
 > lfssystem-3.1). I encountered a few problems:

You're supposed to use lfssystem-cvs-20030127-i486-stripped.tar.bz2

 > 1. the new docs don't mention whether the build dir should be copied to
 > the data subdir or otherwise? anyway putting it under the data subdir
 > works.

We actually leave that to your preference, I personally use the /data dir.

 > 2. make menuconfig. lxdialog fails to start due to glibc version 
errors. I
 > removed the lxdialog binary and make menuconfig built it again, which
 > works.

Somebody accidently checked in the binary file, I removed it from the 
CVS repository.

 > 3. make build. it complains that /usr/include/asm exists and quits.
 > removing that dir makes it work. is the asm dir needed?

Our build script takes care of that and actually creates a symlink into 
the kernel source tree.

 > 4. during make build. bash complains of missing version.h file. 
putting a
 > "make version.h" before the main make command in the bash build script
 > fixes this.

That should not be needed.
Please retry with the correct lfssystem.
Are you working inside the chroot jail ?

 > 5. make install. scripts/copy_base complains /bin/grep and
 > /bin/egrep are not found. fixed by changing to /usr/bin/{grep,egrep} in
 > scripts/config/copy_base.lst . What should be the proper locations?

You should not need to modify this.
Please retry with the correct lfssystem.
Are you working inside the chroot jail ?

 > 6. running system. using jail to run named fails as it can't find the
 > package? I thought everything is running off the CD now, so why is it
 > looking for the package?

The jail support is partly broken in CVS, I actually planned to fix this 
today. This problem comes because we moved everything to CD.

cya
   Heiko