Re: Issues with host system Debian

On 6/25/2016 6:14 AM, Daniel Bernhardt wrote:
> I have successfully built LFS 7.9 twice using Slackware as the
> host system with a default full-install. I'm currently trying to
> build 7.9 Systemd. I've been using various versions of Linux off
> and on for the last 18 years or so, but never too deeply into the
> technical aspects. (Yes, I still use Microshaft too) I'm in my
> late 50's. I can manage most simple scripting issues, but I'm not
> a 'programmer'. I started with RH, I've used Mandrake, Debian,
> Slackware and others just to play with them. I currently have
> Debian (stretch) onboard with Slackware on a second partition,
> and several other partitions available between 2 drives totaling
> 2.4 TB. I'm using an Intel Core i3 @ 3.2Ghz, with 8GB ram. I
> always have a spare computer around just for experimentation,
> which is what I use this one for.
>
>
> To date I have not successfully built LFS using Debian (Wheezy,
> Jessie, or Stretch). I'll get into glibc on the build tools when
> it fails.
>
>
> I've checked the system requirements and I appear to meet them
>
> I added build-essential, bison, gawk, and vim (I hate vim-tiny).
> I fixed the link to /bin/bash from /bin/dash, Is there something
> obvious here that I'm missing? The version-check script shows
> everything as ok with a clean compile on the dummy.c.
>
>
> I've wiped the system clean and getting ready to start over, any
> suggestions before I begin again? I gather from all the
> references that the LFS team has used Debian as a host before.
> Any additional packages that I need to get into Debian before
> trying again?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>

There once *WAS* a project called "Debian from scratch".
I've no idea how closely related to LFS it was.

Interesting links at
https://www.google.com/search?q=+"debian+from+scratch"+site:debian.org

A relevant thread begins at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/06/thrd2.html#00617

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570272 
evidently removed supporting packages from the Debian archive.

HTH

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