Blast from the Past: Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
This post was originally published on November 27, 2011. The original can be found here. As you may be able to tell from my recent, […]
Linux From Scratch
Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
As you may be able to tell from my recent, snooze-worthy technical posts about compilers and makefiles and other assorted garbage, my experience with Linux […]
Building glibc for LFS from Ubuntu by replacing awk
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
Reinstalling LFS soon: it’s not my fault, I swear!
I went to play around with my Linux from Scratch installation after getting a working version of KDE 4.7.3 up and running. For a few […]
Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Why do so many open source programs throw C/C++ warnings?
Seriously, I’d like to know, because this is a bit ridiculous. For all the heavily encouraged coding styles out there, nearly all the open source […]
LFS so far – why you should build i686 and x86_64 binaries
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]
LFS, pre-KDE: kdebindings and kdebase-runtime
kdebindings Are you running into the following problem when compiling kdebindings? Well, you’re probably not, because you picked a saner distribution than LFS, but here […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Fixing libmng with -fPIC and xine with a header
Fixing libmng with -fPIC In preparation for getting KDE4 (and Qt4, and all the other dependencies) working with my Linux from Scratch install, I noticed […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 2
What Next? Chroot Once you get into the chroot environment, you will get the incredibly annoying PC speaker beep every time you foul up a […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1
And I’m started with Linux from Scratch! Here are some helpful pointers for anyone considering running LFS on their own. Caution: this is highly nerdy […]