Linux From Scratch Version 6.6 Created by Gerard Beekmans Edited by Matthew Burgess and Bruce Dubbs Linux From Scratch: Version 6.6 by Created by Gerard Beekmans and Edited by Matthew Burgess and Bruce Dubbs Copyright © 1999-2010 Gerard Beekmans Copyright © 1999-2010, Gerard Beekmans All rights reserved. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Computer instructions may be extracted from the book under the MIT License. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Linux From Scratch - Version 6.6 Table of Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................................................................... viii i. Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................ viii ii. Audience ....................................................................................................................................................... viii iii. LFS Target Architectures .............................................................................................................................. ix iv. LFS and Standards ......................................................................................................................................... x v. Rationale for Packages in the Book ............................................................................................................... xi vi. Prerequisites .................................................................................................................................................. xv vii. Host System Requirements ........................................................................................................................ xvi viii. Typography ............................................................................................................................................. xviii ix. Structure ....................................................................................................................................................... xix x. Errata ............................................................................................................................................................. xix I. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1. How to Build an LFS System ................................................................................................................ 2 1.2. What's new since the last release ........................................................................................................... 3 1.3. Changelog ............................................................................................................................................... 4 1.4. Resources ................................................................................................................................................ 8 1.5. Help ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 II. Preparing for the Build ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2. Preparing a New Partition ............................................................................................................................. 13 2.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 13 2.2. Creating a New Partition ...................................................................................................................... 13 2.3. Creating a File System on the Partition ............................................................................................... 14 2.4. Mounting the New Partition ................................................................................................................. 15 3. Packages and Patches .................................................................................................................................... 17 3.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 17 3.2. All Packages ......................................................................................................................................... 17 3.3. Needed Patches ..................................................................................................................................... 23 4. Final Preparations .......................................................................................................................................... 25 4.1. About $LFS .......................................................................................................................................... 25 4.2. Creating the $LFS/tools Directory ....................................................................................................... 25 4.3. Adding the LFS User ........................................................................................................................... 26 4.4. Setting Up the Environment ................................................................................................................. 26 4.5. About SBUs .......................................................................................................................................... 28 4.6. About the Test Suites ........................................................................................................................... 28 5. Constructing a Temporary System ................................................................................................................ 30 5.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 30 5.2. Toolchain Technical Notes ................................................................................................................... 30 5.3. General Compilation Instructions ......................................................................................................... 32 5.4. Binutils-2.20 - Pass 1 ........................................................................................................................... 33 5.5. GCC-4.4.3 - Pass 1 ............................................................................................................................... 35 5.6. Linux-2.6.32.8 API Headers ................................................................................................................. 37 5.7. Glibc-2.11.1 .......................................................................................................................................... 38 5.8. Adjusting the Toolchain ....................................................................................................................... 40 5.9. Binutils-2.20 - Pass 2 ........................................................................................................................... 42 iii Linux From Scratch - Version 6.6 5.10. GCC-4.4.3 - Pass 2 ............................................................................................................................. 44 5.11. Tcl-8.5.8 .............................................................................................................................................. 48 5.12. Expect-5.43.0 ...................................................................................................................................... 50 5.13. DejaGNU-1.4.4 ................................................................................................................................... 52 5.14. Ncurses-5.7 ......................................................................................................................................... 53 5.15. Bash-4.1 .............................................................................................................................................. 54 5.16. Bzip2-1.0.5 .......................................................................................................................................... 55 5.17. Coreutils-8.4 ........................................................................................................................................ 56 5.18. Diffutils-2.8.1 ...................................................................................................................................... 57 5.19. Findutils-4.4.2 ..................................................................................................................................... 58 5.20. Gawk-3.1.7 .......................................................................................................................................... 59 5.21. Gettext-0.17 ........................................................................................................................................