On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:27:04 +0100, Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if anybody still uses jhalfs, and if he(she) has tried ICA
> lately.

I use jhalfs all the time, but I've never done an ICA build with it.

> ICA is broken because of the part in glibc's instructions, which
> instructs 'test-installation.pl' to look for /usr/lib rather than
> /tools/lib. On the second (and following) pass, the line 'DL=...' sets
> DL to empty (because /tools has been removed). Then the sed creates
> a flawed 'test-installation.pl'.
> 
> Here is a patch which could be applied inside the LFS subdirectory
> of jhalfs:

Thanks, I'll apply that this evening.

> Let me know if my efforts on jhalfs may be useful. It seems that
> my post on jhalfs-discuss has reached nobody... Besides adding
> package management, which you can simply disable by setting
> package management to n (this is the default) in the config menu,
> I spotted a few other bugs in the handling of tests. For example,
> look for the line "ulimits..." before tests in gcc, in the scripts
> from current jhalfs.

I monitor alfs-discuss too, but have no interest in package management
hence made no comment on it :-)  I guess if the patch doesn't break things
for none-package-management uses then it could be applied with a minimum
of discussion really.

Thanks,

Matt.

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