LFS FAQ Updates

[Chris Staub]

Several entries in the LFS FAQ should either specify that they apply to 
5.x versions of the LFS book, or be removed entirely:

Modutils: "lex.l:429: `yytext_ptr' undeclared" while building modutils

GCC: Error: unrecognized option '--as-needed'
(this one could also be replaced by the "current" binutils error 
"../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/gas/config/tc-i386.h:443: error: array 
type has incomplete element type" when used with gcc4 hosts)

Glibc: "cannot determine asm global directive".

I'm getting errors about net-pf-?.

ld: cannot find -lc



A couple entries are even older and should have been removed long ago...

Where's libncurses.a in Mandrake?

Bash: conflicting types for `gethostname'
(both of these refer to static compilation of all of chap. 5, which 
ended with lfs 5.0)



A couple more entries need some rewording...

"./configure: bad interpreter: Permission denied
     You're most likely getting this while building bash in Chapter 5 of 
the LFS Book. The problem is most likely your mount options. You 
probably have a line in /etc/fstab like:
     /dev/hda10 /mnt/lfs ext2 user 1 2..."

This one probably just needs "bash" changed to "binutils".

"checking whether we are using GNU C... no"

This refers to checking and making sure /tools/bin/grep is statically 
linked, which of course it shouldn't be anyway in LFS > 5.0.

Perl fails with *** missing separator. Stop.

This refers to MAKEDEV, which should of course be replaced with "udev". 
Then again, this question could probably just be removed - I just tried 
building perl after removing /dev/null, and the configure quit with 
"/dev/null: Permission denied", not the error message mentioned in that 
FAQ entry.

Glibc: "ld.map: No such file or directory".

This refers to the creation of /dev/null in glibc instructions, which is 
no longer accurate. It also mentions a "mount --bind /dev $LFS/dev" 
command which isn't used either. Also, I just tried running configure on 
glibc after removing /dev/null - again, it just says "/dev/null: 
Permission denied".