SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

[Dennis Clarke]

> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Both attempts seem to be failing in similar way.
>>
>> Not sure what direction to take here.
>>
>> Any thoughts ?
>
> Well the CFLAGS thing shouldn't be necessary on powerpc, so your second
> approach was the better one. But then you hit this:
>
> 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed
> (bad class -- [], [^] or [)
> /[^
> mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ]
> mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: runaway regular expression /, "",'
>
> Interesting. What is the host system you're using?

Debian etch

> Also, instead of trying to adapt the development book to powerpc (I
> assume that's what you're doing)

Mostly I flail and make silly faces at my old DEC VT220 terminal here :-)
I thought I was doing pretty well actually.  Funny looking anyways.

> you might want to try following the jh branch.

Beautiful !  I will definately try that before going too far.

> The last I checked it was working well on powerpc. It makes sure
> that you get the right spec changes in gcc, etc.
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-JH/
>
> Looking forward to hearing more about your progress.
> JH

I see those letters JH there and I see them in the "jh branch".  Somewhere
in the back of my little brain I hear a dinging noise. It tells me that I am
in good hands as well as a smaller, less thrilled voice that tells me to
start over.

I knew that this was an experimental process anyways and that part of
learning and going forwards is falling over in the mud.

Thank you !  I'm on top of that jh branch now and going letter by letter.

Dennis Clarke