Fwd: [UCLUG] Fwd: Next Meeting: 2026-Feb-10 18:30 - Linux From Scratch part 1

[Ben Francis]

The rumors are true. I'm going to do Linux From Scratch again, having forgotten the pain of the first two times. :D The first time took two months on a 200MHz processor. The second time took a weekend. The LFS book says it should take about 8 hours. We'll see how many meetings it takes to complete it.

And boy, do I have a story about hypervisors on the Mac. Tune in for the nonstop hilarity.

Ben

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From: Jas Eckard <jas+...@eckard.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Subject: [UCLUG] Fwd: Next Meeting: 2026-Feb-10 18:30 - Linux From Scratch part 1
To: UCLUG <uc...@googlegroups.com>

Ben Francis has volunteered to start us on the journey of going
through "Linux From Scratch" (www.linuxfromscratch.org) as a group.
The idea of going through the"Linux From Scratch" project as a group
was proposed to me last year, and I thought it was a great idea!
Thanks for kicking us off, Ben!

Announcement page has been updated:

https://mobilizon.us/events/e52475a1-947f-471b-892b-b175026dd3a9

--Jas
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From: Jas Eckard <jas+...@eckard.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Subject: Next Meeting: 2026-Feb-10 18:30 - Hangout
To: UCLUG <uc...@googlegroups.com>


UCLUG will have our monthly meeting on 2026-Feb-10 at 18:30 at
OpenWorks . There is no specific topic this month, so the plan is to
just hang out and talk Linux. Someone mentioned i3 and tiling window
managers, and there's been some discussion about trying Linux From
Scratch as a group, so who knows? Come and hang out with us!

If you can't attend in-person, please join us live online along with
ColaLUG, the Columbia SC Linux User's Group, on Jitsi:

https://meet.jit.si/sclugs

If attending in-person, enter OpenWorks from the 3rd floor breezeway
of Richardson Street Garage in downtown Greenville, SC. More info on
this entrance:

https://joinopenworks.com/guest-access

Also, feel free to sign up at:

https://mobilizon.us/events/e52475a1-947f-471b-892b-b175026dd3a


--Jas
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[Ben Francis]

Here is the much, much shorter gist to build a different Linux From Scratch: https://gist.github.com/0x4248/6e1499eb7a6d79349404780f14fdc38d

During the meeting you all helped me identify the problem with my case-insensitive git clone of linux on a mac: I had not specified that the repo should be case sensitive. These two commands fixed it:

git config case.ignorecase false    # set case sensitivity for this repo
git pull -r                                         # rebase (breaks your history, btw)

After that, "make -j$(proc)" completed in 20 minutes, giving me a kernel image at arch/arm64/boot/Image . Thank you so much!

The next part of that gist says to "make menuconfig" in the busybox directory, which of course failed for me:
root@de155ffb13b0:/busybox# make menuconfig
 *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
 *** required header files.
 *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
 ***
 *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
 ***
make[2]: *** [/busybox/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile:15: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/busybox/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:14: menuconfig] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:444: menuconfig] Error 2

I assure you ncurses is installed. ldd, pkg-config, and ldconfig have not fixed the problem. This script definitely can't find ncurses: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/lxdialog . 

I'll keep working the problem, as it's definitely easier than doing the real LFS, again. :D

Ben