Re: jhalfs failure, likely due to malformed DISTRIB_RELEASE parsing in MLFS (extra quote inserted)

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On Thu, 2026-04-23 at 10:26 -0400, Eric Clothier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 10:13 Pierre Labastie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2026-04-22 at 18:41 -0400, Eric Clothier wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > I recently completed a jhalfs build using the multilib (MLFS)
> > > branch[...]
> > >=20
> > > I=E2=80=99m happy to help test a fix if needed.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Thanks for the detailed report. I think it is time to just extract
> > chapter11/theend to a scriptlet and run it as part of the build,
> > instead of generating it in the Makefile. I'll work on that.
> >=20
> > I'm not sure whether the VERSION variable is used elsewhere. But
> > "for
> > sure", the code to generate it is not good for the multilib branch.
> >=20
> > Regards
> > Pierre
> > --
>=20
> Pierre, I actually have a small update on this that I discovered
> after I sent of the initial report.
>=20
> The VERSION variable is also used to populate some values in the BLFS
> Config.in file, which also caused the same type of errors. That one
> was a bit strange to me, as the initial BLFS tool dependencies built
> at the end of jhalfs ran fine, but when I popped back in to chroot
> and run a couple of other BLFS builds (the shell scripts and vim
> scripts, I like to run those before I add my normal user and reboot,
> that way my environment is ready on first boot), that was when the
> errors hit. Again, modifying the malformed variable in Config.in
> fixed the issue.
>=20

(please reply to list)

Yes version of "lfs-release" is extracted the same way everywhere...
I'll work on that too.

Pierre

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