[wellylug] BLFS Problems..

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

>yes - I did that, and it didn't work...
>It says that's what should be done in the LFS book.

OK.  The other thing to check is that /dev/ptmx exists.  On my system,
it looks like:

    israel$ ls -l /dev/ptmx
    crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        5,   2 Jan  9 22:38 /dev/ptmx

Code that wants to allocate a pty in a sysv style will try to open
/dev/ptmx, which will magically open a new file in /dev/pts; eg
/dev/pts/0.  (mx stands for "multiplexer", from memory.)

I imagine that creating that device should have been done by the MAKEDEV
step in the LFS book.
    -- michael.