Re: /dev/mouse symlink and the udev rules file [Was 'Re: r175 - trunk' in the li

2005-05-24 Thread Jeremy Utley
Marty _ wrote: Good answer, never investigated udev to be quite honest, just thought it was another form of devfs from the guide. To add to your note, there isnt a difference between the two, ive just got so used to slackware's /dev style I couldnt handle the entire directory tree the devf

Re: XML changes in cross-tools

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Gifford
M.Canales.es wrote: Hi! I'm thinking to start soon the following XML changes on the cross-tools branch, if there is no complaints: .- Sources indentation. Like the current one in BLFS. .- Some fixes and small changes in the tagging. .- To add all possible XInclude tags to avoid duplicated

XML changes in cross-tools

2005-05-24 Thread M.Canales.es
Hi! I'm thinking to start soon the following XML changes on the cross-tools branch, if there is no complaints: .- Sources indentation. Like the current one in BLFS. .- Some fixes and small changes in the tagging. .- To add all possible XInclude tags to avoid duplicated text before to start up

LFS Bootscripts Error on First Boot

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Kipper
Hi, I'm crossposting this to -support and -dev in the hopes of solving this problem. On my first boot of my LFS system, using bootscripts 3.2.1, I get the following error: FAILURE: Unexpected failure running fsck. Exited wi

Re: /dev/mouse symlink and the udev rules file [Was 'Re: r175 - trunk' in the li

2005-05-24 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:33:39PM +0100, Marty _ wrote: > never investigated udev to be quite honest, just thought it > was another form of devfs from the guide. It is, in that it dynamically manages the /dev directory. But it does this using hotplug events from the kernel, not code inside the

Re: fsf ? binutils

2005-05-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Jensen wrote: I'm guessing current development has moved to fsf, but the download link is still to kernel.org which i think is hjl? It should be fixed? Fixed. Thanks for that, David. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscra

fsf ? binutils

2005-05-24 Thread David Jensen
I'm guessing current development has moved to fsf, but the download link is still to kernel.org which i think is hjl? It should be fixed? --- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Do we need Flex??

2005-05-24 Thread Ainsley Pereira
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:45:31AM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > >The obvious answer (for me anyway) to "how do I parse a config file" is > >"use flex and bison to build a grammar". > > And the obvious answer to me (being a C++ kinda guy) is to use 'Spirit' > from the

Re: /dev/mouse symlink and the udev rules file [Was 'Re: r175 - trunk' in the li

2005-05-24 Thread Marty _
Marty _ wrote: Why doesnt someone do something sensible and mount devfs to /.devfs Uh... because we don't use devfs? ;-) Bring back the old devices style. udev does (almost completely, anyway), with the rules file(s) we use. One difference is that you won't see devices for drivers you don'

Re: Do we need Flex??

2005-05-24 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> The obvious answer (for me anyway) to "how do I parse a config file" is >> "use flex and bison to build a grammar". > > And the obvious answer to me (being a C++ kinda guy) is to use 'Spirit' > from the boost libraries (http://www.boost.org/) :)

Re: /dev/mouse symlink and the udev rules file [Was 'Re: r175 - trunk' in the li

2005-05-24 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Marty _ wrote: > Why doesnt someone do something sensible and mount devfs to /.devfs Uh... because we don't use devfs? ;-) > Bring back the old devices style. udev does (almost completely, anyway), with the rules file(s) we use. One difference is that you won't see devices for drivers you don't

Re: gcc-3.4.4 specs-3 patch not currently in SVN trunk ?

2005-05-24 Thread Kev Buckley
> > It's corrected now, the patch is actually suppose to be -2 and not -3. > Should be updated by the next rendering. > > Thanx for the report. FWIW, I forgot to say that the 3.4.3 patch suceeds, as follows, anyway: patching file gcc/config/alpha/linux-elf.h patching file gcc/config/arm/linux-

Re: gcc-3.4.4 specs-3 patch not currently in SVN trunk ?

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Gifford
It's corrected now, the patch is actually suppose to be -2 and not -3. Should be updated by the next rendering. Thanx for the report. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

gcc-3.4.4 specs-3 patch not currently in SVN trunk ?

2005-05-24 Thread Kev Buckley
Link from the Required Patches section of Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20050523 version held at http://www.uk.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/ to the gcc-3.4.4-specs-3.patch mentioned in the text "5.12. GCC-3.4.4 - Pass 2" isn't resolved http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc

Re: Do we need Flex??

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: Please list your comments as a go or no go. No go, Jim. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/lex.html suggests that it's a reasonable expectation for 'lex' to be installed on a Unix system, hence that's what we'll do. It's not