Re: ./configure.lineno: fork: Cannot allocate memory

[Pierre]

Hello Ralf,

You are right, it seems that expr is broken. Here is the result of the
command you advised :
root:/# expr 426 + 1
Illegal instruction

I don't know why I didn't have the problem sooner though, as in LFS,
once a package is built it is used in the following steps... So I
suppose I should have had the problem with expr after building
coreutils in chapter 6.

Anyway, no problem, I understood your instructions ;-) And yes, I
carefully built every LFS package with the recommended patches...

Will have to rebuild coreutils then and see if it works...

Again, thanks for your help !

Pierre

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Pierre wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:56:56PM CEST:
>> As adviced, I added "set -x" in the configure script of File-5.03. The
>> software versions are those of LFS 6.5
>> (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter03/packages.html)
>> :
>> - Autoconf-2.64
>> - Bash-4.0
>
> Please update bash to the latest patchlevel as per
> <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/>
> and retry.  If the error persists: no need to resend logs,
> but please try this out in the chroot:
>  expr 426 + 1
>
> I suspect that either bash has a problem with backquoted command
> substitution within unquoted here-documents or coreutils' expr is not
> working correctly.
>
> You should consider not using LFS if all of this doesn't make sense to
> you.  ;-)
>
> Incidentally, the next chapter of the above LFS documentation also lists
> a bash patch.  Did you use it?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>