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Linux From Scratch (LFS) provides step-by-step instructions for building a custom Linux system from source. Do not confuse this tag with the git-lfs tag.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) provides step-by-step instructions for building a custom Linux system from source. Use this tag for build problems, alternative compile time options and system integration questions.

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LFS:coreutils compile error

help2man: can't get --help' info from man/cp.td/cp Try--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr Makefile:14066: recipe for target 'man/cp.1' failed make[2]: * [man/cp.1] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/coreutils-8.23'…
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LFS 7.2: Hundreds of errors in glibc make check

I am on Section 6.9 of the LFS book. Everything before this section seemed fine. When I ran make check I got a huge number of errors. A longer transcript of my make check run can be found here on Pastebin. Summary of test results: 865 FAIL …
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LFS Chapter 6.20 Ncurses install error

I've been going step by step until midnight, then I turned off the Laptop (Standby) - i've Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as OS. When I woke up I wanted to continue, so I started my laptop again, but the screen kept black. I shut it down, and started it. I had to…
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glibc make fails inside of chroot enviroment

So today I was working on my LFS system using version 7.7 of the stable book. I got to the point where you build the glibc package after doing a chroot into the LFS directory. The package configures successfully, but when i run make, the terminal…
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Building glibc from source not compiling ldconfig

I've downloaded, built and installed glibc many times before and all was ok, this time ldconfig binary is not created and hence I am unable to update the /etc/ld.so.cache file correctly leading to a problem finding shared objetcts. The version of…
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Understanding LFS environment setup

I have some questions regarding the suggested setup from LFS. Question: what is this command really doing cat > ~/.bash_profile << "EOF" exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash EOF it mentions that the "new…
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Why using mke2fs -j creates ext3 in Ubuntu?

-j Creates the filesystem with an ext3 journal. Why not an ext4?
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configure error for mpfr-3.1.2 missing libgmp but is is in the /usr/lib

I am on step 6.15.1 on linux from scratch. When I am trying to configure the mpfr I am getting an error ... checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI (including static vs shared). Please read…
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Apache 2.4.4 - compiled from source, a2ensite is missing?

I've set up a Linux machine for web development and learning some administration skills. It's running with LFS, so everything is compiled from source and I have the latest versions for all software components: Linux 3.10.1, PHP 5.5.0, MySQL 5.6.12…
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java awt text input do not editable in LFS linux

After done a LFS(linuxfromscratch) system, I has 2 problems with input, some applications like google docs (presentations edit in browsers) and some java apps apparently do not recognize the keyboard input, the first one was resolved adding UTF-8…
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error in make check of pkg-config of lfs 6.5

I am building LFS based on LFS 6.5 book,in my ubuntu 11.10. I got test suite failed message when installing pkg-config in chapter 6.17. The error is in file pkg-config-0.23/check/common line number 20, syntax error near unexpected token ). No such…
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LFS 7.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 chroot: failed to run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory

I create LFS 7.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 but with the problem happened in chapter 6.4:Entering the Chroot Environment. I execute the command: chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i \ HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ …
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Why my cross compiler toolchain not static link?

I want to build my cross compile tool chain, I build it successful. It can use normally, but when I move it, it cannot work!! It print error while loading shared libraries: libcloog-isl.so.3, libcloog-isl is not install in my host. I configure the…
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Installing VM NIC with Intel diver e1000

I have installed Ubuntu Linux image in a VMware virtual box. Then I added three NIC interfaces. They all have Intel e1000 as the driver when I validated with ethtool command. Then I installed another Custom Linux image in a VMware virtual box. Then…
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creation of OS image in iso format

I want to create an OS image as an iso, so I can use my LFS system as a guest in a VM. What is the right way to do this? Thanks in advance.
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