Re: [RFC] FAQ Structure on Beta Site

2005-07-07 Thread Wiliam Harrington
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:37:25 -0700, Justin R. Knierim wrote: > Hello everyone: > > As most of you know, the website team is trying to get the new beta site > ready for service as soon as possible. One of the last few things left, > is moving the FAQ to the new site. The FAQ hasn't been updated

[RFC] FAQ Structure on Beta Site

2005-07-07 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Hello everyone: As most of you know, the website team is trying to get the new beta site ready for service as soon as possible. One of the last few things left, is moving the FAQ to the new site. The FAQ hasn't been updated in 6 months and needs some attention. Before we do all that work mo

Re: /mnt/lfs/dev and 6.1-pre

2005-07-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Should I expect /mnt/lfs/dev to be busy when I come to shut down after > > building 6.1-pre2 (in an xterm, if it matters) ? > > Not if you were using the version specified in that book. Later > versions kick off a daemon, which o

Re: /mnt/lfs/dev and 6.1-pre

2005-07-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Justin R. Knierim wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Should I expect /mnt/lfs/dev to be busy when I come to shut down after > >building 6.1-pre2 (in an xterm, if it matters) ? Nothing showed in lsof > >or fuser, and I was able to remount r/o. > > > > Maybe this isn't new and I'v

Re: /mnt/lfs/dev and 6.1-pre

2005-07-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: Should I expect /mnt/lfs/dev to be busy when I come to shut down after building 6.1-pre2 (in an xterm, if it matters) ? Not if you were using the version specified in that book. Later versions kick off a daemon, which one has to kill prior to unmounting. I can't think what

Re: /mnt/lfs/dev and 6.1-pre

2005-07-07 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Ken Moffat wrote: Should I expect /mnt/lfs/dev to be busy when I come to shut down after building 6.1-pre2 (in an xterm, if it matters) ? Nothing showed in lsof or fuser, and I was able to remount r/o. Maybe this isn't new and I've just not noticed before ? Was /mnt/lfs/pts and /mnt/lfs/shm

/mnt/lfs/dev and 6.1-pre

2005-07-07 Thread Ken Moffat
Should I expect /mnt/lfs/dev to be busy when I come to shut down after building 6.1-pre2 (in an xterm, if it matters) ? Nothing showed in lsof or fuser, and I was able to remount r/o. Maybe this isn't new and I've just not noticed before ? Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als

Re: Small error in the emacs section (BLFS Chapter6, sect 2)

2005-07-07 Thread David Jensen
David Jensen wrote: Kim McCall wrote: In BLFS, Chap6, sec2, " Emacs-21.4a," which I access as http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/emacs.html under "Short Descriptions" you list "b2m" twice, with different descriptions. I'm reasonably certain that the second one wants to be

Re: Chapter 27, Fluxbox

2005-07-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Jensen wrote these words on 07/07/05 08:46 CST: >>The "which" program should be added as an optional dependency for >>Fluxbox - it's needed for the "fluxbox-generate_menu" script to work. > > > Added, thanks for the heads-up. Actually, no dependency should have been added, and it probabl

Re: Small error in the emacs section (BLFS Chapter6, sect 2)

2005-07-07 Thread David Jensen
Kim McCall wrote: In BLFS, Chap6, sec2, " Emacs-21.4a," which I access as http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/emacs.html under "Short Descriptions" you list "b2m" twice, with different descriptions. I'm reasonably certain that the second one wants to be "ctags" instead. Thank

Small error in the emacs section (BLFS Chapter6, sect 2)

2005-07-07 Thread Kim McCall
In BLFS, Chap6, sec2, " Emacs-21.4a," which I access as http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/emacs.html under "Short Descriptions" you list "b2m" twice, with different descriptions. I'm reasonably certain that the second one wants to be "ctags" instead. Thanks for all your incre

Re: Book for 6.1-pre1: a few miscellaneous nits

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Bernard Leak wrote: The word is "programme". Yes, it really is, unless you are writing American. It is a curiosity of the LFS book that it's not instantly obvious whether it's written in American English or not. The use of "alternative" suggests that it isn't mid-American,

make 3.80

2005-07-07 Thread Hai Zaar
I've checked the issue with make-3.81beta3 - it works just fine. I hope they'll release it soon. About 'Big super duper big Makefile' :) I've phrased it this way for sake of simplicity. Actually, we've develop some sort of build system for LFS. We have one general Makefile, which loads and eval'ua