I just figured out that the proper string to grep for is 'error'.
Regardless none of the logs I created contain neither error nor fail so I
believe everything is good. Is this correct do you think? Am I correct in
my thinking?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello PLUG!
> Well, I am in section 6.52 and the check doesn't check. Here is what it
> says. I get the same two fails twice:
>
>
>   root:/sources/kmod-16# tail check.fail
>   Making check in .
>     CCLD     libkmod/libkmod.la
>   Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
>   Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
>   Making check in .
>     CCLD     libkmod/libkmod.la
>   Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
>   Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
>
> I redirect the output of check to a file so I have it. I asked the lfs
> support list (message below); however I haven't gotten any help with this
> issue since I post the message to their board 25.5 hours ago. I googled:
>
>
>   "Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed"
>
> and the only result I found was someone had post something to pastebin
> containing that string. I also tried googling the other line but no results
> were found.
>
> Would someone tell me what:
>
>
>   Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
>   Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
>
> means? Should I ignore the error and just trudge on?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:29 AM
> Subject: 6.52
> To: LFS Support List <lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>
>
>
> I am in section 6.52 and I get a host of failures that don't seem to have
> been queried of before so searching the archives didn't help.
>
> root:/sources/kmod-16# cat make.fail|grep -i fail
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> Makefile:895: recipe for target 'all' failed
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> Makefile:895: recipe for target 'all' failed
> root:/sources/kmod-16# cat check.fail|grep -i fail
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> root:/sources/kmod-16# cat install.fail|grep -i fail
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> root:/sources/kmod-16# tail check.fail
> Making check in .
>   CCLD     libkmod/libkmod.la
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> Making check in .
>   CCLD     libkmod/libkmod.la
> Makefile:1041: recipe for target 'libkmod/libkmod.la' failed
> Makefile:1520: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
>
> Here are the commands I entered:
>
> #erase
> #<Extra instructions go here>
> #no erase
> ./configure --prefix=/usr          \
>             --bindir=/bin          \
>             --sysconfdir=/etc      \
>             --with-rootlibdir=/lib \
>             --disable-manpages     \
>             --with-xz              \
>             --with-zlib
> #erase
> #<Extra instructions go here>
> #no erase
> make>>make.fail
> #erase
> #<Extra instructions go here>
> #no erase
> make check>>check.fail
> #erase
> #<Extra instructions go here>
> #no erase
> make install
> make -C man install
> for target in depmod insmod modinfo modprobe rmmod; do
>   ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/$target
> done
> ln -sv kmod /bin/lsmod
> #erase
> #<Extra instructions go here>
> #no erase
> cat make.fail|grep -i fail
> cat check.fail|grep -i fail
> cat install.fail|grep -i fail
> tail check.fail
>
>
>