[leroycocu]

when i was searching around the net i came across LFS(linux from scratch)
well i have downloaded all the packages but when i try to compilen/make the binutils it give's me this error

[root@localhost binutils-2.15.91.0.2]# make configure-host
Configuring in bfd
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
make: *** [configure-bfd] Fout 1

well when i did this for the first time it did allot and when it came at this point it stoppest en give's me this error and now it keeps on continueing from there
i hope i have gave enough info below aree my comp info

and i have heard from someone that the GCC from mandrake was pretty crappy

AMD althon 2100+
Nvidia geforce II 64MB
256MB ddr
80GB /dev/hde <<NTFS with my music and a f*ck*d windows XP pro
30GB /dev/hdf
/dev/hdf1 <10GB<mandrake 10.0
/dev/hdf2 <500MB<SWAP
/dev/hdf4 <about 19,5GB < here i want to create the LFS

[tsunam]

first out of curiosity, why are you doing LFS?

Secondary from the error message. It seems to be looking for cygwin and mingw32 and they arn't there, no surprise. The configure error seems to be that while its doing the ./configure it's seeing that its trying to do more then one host and target...not sure why but that seems to be the problem

probably a config file edit to get it to only do one host target etc..

[leroycocu]

well i want to learn it and the book i have downloaded from LFS says every thing you need to do and explains it all but hell i have looked into the configure file :S but where must i edit it
it is so long and i dont know that much about it but in this way i am trying to learn about compiling sources/packages

[leroycocu]

well i have looked around a bit on the net for the cygwin but i only found out that it where EXE's (in other words windows) and the other 2 i tought that those program could run linux apps on windows but the point is what to edit or how to get those programs running on machine :S i am starting to get lost a little bit why can it only do one at the time i am only asking one thing at the time why is that thing giving me a hard time :S im not even that far with the LFS

[johnny_frog]

You could start with an easier distriubution to get up and running with Linux before diving into something that requires compiling everything from scratch......

something like Fedora, SuSe or Mandrake for example.... there are many others

[leroycocu]

well if you havent read well every thing i have mandrake installed and runnig as far is it does and i want to create my own linux that i have customized to fit my pc so i can simply install it faster with less MB becuase it doesnt not have a gigantic driverś database with driver i dont need becuase i only have one video card one sound card one raidcontroller etc. etc. and if something goes terribly wrong i could reinstall it faster then other system's and i want to learn how to compilen thing's only this piece of junk :P does not do it at the while i do every like the way it stands there

[tsunam]

/me looks at gentoo... *shrugs*

[short101]

your drivers are in your kernel (or modules for the kernel), and you can compile that to your hearts content in any distro