If you put the right sleep statement at the end of your %post section you should be able to get an interactive prompt at the end of the install on the ctrl-alt-f2 screen and poke around the chroot environment and see what is there and what is not there, and try to reproduce the commands that are failing. Steve Timm On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Boryeu Mao wrote: > Wrong conclusion about gcc/make being 'apparently unavailable yet in > chroot environment'. > > Further investigation found that, during a ./configure test (before > 'make'), 'gcc' failed to create executables (for a small > 'conftest.c'), with a message of "collect2: cannot find 'ld' ". > However, 'binutils' was among the packages that had been installed > prior to the %post section, and the directory /usr/bin (where ld > lives) is found in PATH by ./configure. > > Also, in the system booted from the dvd image, the ./configure script > runs successfully, and ld is where it should be. > > Google search so far hasn't turn up anything relevant. Suggestions and > help are appreciated. Thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Services Quad. Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing