Pacman on LFS

Question

So I just finished installing LFS 6.6 on my laptop and am in need of a package manager. My personal choices are either apt or pacman... After checking out apt, it seems there are far too many dependencies to search for and set up. Pacman's dependencies appear to be few and very easy (for the most part) to find.
I've located and downloaded all of the packages required for pacman, and pacman itself. All but 2 of these packages have been successfully installed. Obviously pacman is one that I haven't been able to install yet, that is because one of it's dependencies (libdownload or libfetch - I've tried both) fail to install.
I haven't mastered the Linux universe (but am obviously well on my way after installing LFS lol), so I'm really not sure how to deal with this.
When I run "make" in the source directory for libfetch I get the error: makefile:13: *** missing separator. Stop.
I'm not sure exactly is going on with this... I checked line 13
.include <bsd.own.mk>
and have searched google for hours trying to figure out how to fix this problem but have been unable to find a solution.
Also, removing or commenting out line 13 generates an error on the next line that starts with a .
Which is:
.if !empty(FETCH_WITH_INET6:M[yY][eE][eE])
and again at:
.if !empty(FETCH_WITH_OPENSSL:M[yY][eE][sS])
and finally:
.include <bsd.lib.mk>
I read something somewhere that said normally adding a tab at the beginning of the line will fix it, it didn't. A friend suggested adding a space at the beginning of the line, that didn't work either.
I'm not sure if I need a different source, different Makefile, or just a very minor change in file.
I would appreciate any help that is given.

Answer 1

ngoonee wrote:
Spacenick wrote:Ok, why the hell are you trying LFS instead of Arch if THIS is hard to figure out for you even after the first hint by Allan?
And please don't be one of those guys trying LFS as their first linux and then leaving because Linux is to complicated!
Perhaps as a learning experience? Give him a bit of slack, he's not complained about anything so far
Besides, I know I feel tired just thinking about doing LFS, so I tip my hat to those with the guts (and free time) to try it.
ngoonee is correct. This is a learning experience for me.
Also, LFS is not my first linux. Ubuntu is my first and I still use it as my main system currently.
I installed Arch Linux on my brother's computer, and that was a great learning experience.
I also have Debian on another system in my home, but I haven't used that one much at all.
I was challenged by a friend of mine to attempt LFS. I like challenges.
I completed LFS successfully on my laptop, I tried at first on the system I put Debian on but that computer is far too slow and I ran into errors compiling GCC that I could not find a solution to.
...After completing LFS on my laptop, I can tell you that I would be working on LFS on that computer possibly for the next 2 or 3 months, since it is 8 times slower than my laptop.
Anyways...
At the time that I had asked the question I had my head stuck in all sorts of instructions, lines generated from packages installed by LFS, and searches on the internet that returned no results.
My mind was clouded and I was frustrated.
But, this is going off topic, so lets just leave it at this.