well..... I just  realized that there must be a reason that the glibc line was commented out in the LFS book so I'm not going to worry about it. regarding your line I did enter it and it  returned nothing. then I re-read the the text concerning that and it finally dawned on me..... I want all of them or none of them and if I only had 1 or two of them it is okay to delete the ones that are there. I get there.... even if it does take me a little longer. I wish this wasn't the case but at least I can blame the head injury for the difficulties. I'll start working on it when I get home from work tonight.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:27 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

Michael, have you even looked at what is in line 32 of your version-check.sh?
Among other things, because 'glibc' is more than a program (it is more like the whole engine running under the hood), and your system would not even boot up is you don't have 'glibc' (which is a whole lot system)
You'll learn that as you read LFS.
Did you ever try:
find /lib/ /*/lib/ -name lib${X}.la
ET

Michael Havens writes:

well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with a standard
installation of debian; it was only after I tried with a net install of
debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso of debian and after
the install I'll see if that helps.
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

well I installed gmp  the way it instructed and then I did a search for
mpfr on the same website and installed it as well, but couldn't find gibc
or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing files but figured I
would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't just spinning my wheels.
It appears the two files were not installed correctly enough for LInux from
Scratch.

gmp

~$ bash version-check.sh
---truncate---
version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found
g++ compilation OK
libgmp.la: found
libmpfr.la: found
libmpc.la: not found

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com
> wrote:

this is what it is after:
GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library is a free library for
arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational
numbers, and floating point numbers.
http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html has some nice refrence material as well.
*Snip*
--
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
Stephen

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