On 8/20/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > BTW, if there are no plans to remove inetutils, we might was well keep > > the utils such as ftp and telnet that it current installs. > > But that was one of the reasons I was proposing we remove it. 'ftp' > simply doesn't compile out of the box on the gcc4 branch, and the only > patch we have causes it to segfault when issuing any command to it! > Upstream applied the patch, then reverted it shortly afterwards when > they realised it was the wrong fix. Unfortunately the right fix still > hasn't materialised (and I'm not qualified to be able to engineer the > fix myself).
For gcc4 branch, for the time being the book could add a --disable-ftp option and state the reason why it is disabled. Hopefully by the time the gcc4 branch is ready for release, a fix would be available. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
