Re: FAQ: Package management

2006-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>Mark Rosenstand wrote: >> >> >>>On a side note: Another headline for "Why isn't some package >>>manager in the book?" would be appreciated. >> >>http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/introduction/important.html#pkgmgt > > > Yes. This is ex

Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-01 Thread Chris Staub
I've attached a patch for a few minor changes in the book. This includes a reduction in the Chapter 6 glibc explanatory text on locales (there is no reason for the same thing to be said both in Chapters 5 and 6) as well as a link to the new BLFS locale page, and a small change in Chapter 6 binu

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Pasha Zubkov wrote: > Bryan Kadzban пишет: > >> Why not just use getwc(), and use wchar_t's in all cases? >> >> You'd have to modify the output to convert back to multibyte >> characters (specifically, LC_CTYPE-encoding characters; they may >> not actually have more than one byte per character),

Re: module-init-tools-3.2.2 : any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

2006-01-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Bernard Leak wrote: Dear List, in what is (or was a few days ago!) the 'live' LFS Book (LFS-BOOK-SVN-20051223), I can't get the test-suite for 6.50, Module-Init-Utils to run *at all*. Ignoring the test result, everything seems to build, but I haven't dared ins

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Pasha Zubkov
Bryan Kadzban пишет: Why not just use getwc(), and use wchar_t's in all cases? You'd have to modify the output to convert back to multibyte characters (specifically, LC_CTYPE-encoding characters; they may not actually have more than one byte per character), but it looks like add_wch does that al

Re: Essential Symlinks: Explainations

2006-01-01 Thread Greg Schafer
Tushar Teredesai wrote: > Additionally, the libgcc_s.so symlink is not needed. Only the > libgcc_s.so.1 is needed so that glibc can dlopen that library (used in > nptl). Are you sure? The libgcc_s.so symlink became necessary when LFS adopted the startfile_prefix_spec hackery in the toolchain read

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Pasha Zubkov wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: > >> Pasha Zubkov wrote: >> >>> Hello, this patch fix UTF-8 issue with `watch` at least in >>> ru_RU.UTF-8 and be_BY.UTF-8. >> >> Rejected, breaks ru_RU.KOI8-R. >> > Added test for UTF-8. > Why not just use getwc(), and use wchar_t's in all

module-init-tools-3.2.2 : any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

2006-01-01 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear List, in what is (or was a few days ago!) the 'live' LFS Book (LFS-BOOK-SVN-20051223), I can't get the test-suite for 6.50, Module-Init-Utils to run *at all*. Ignoring the test result, everything seems to build, but I haven't dared install it on top of the existing version.

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Pasha Zubkov
Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Pasha Zubkov wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: UTF-8 is _still_ not fully supported (e.g. 'tr :upper: :lower:' works only on ASCII characters, 'watch' shows only ASCII characters, 'sfdisk' misaligns button labels in non-English UTF-8 locales), but the same bug

Re: FAQ: Package management

2006-01-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > > On a side note: Another headline for "Why isn't some package > > manager in the book?" would be appreciated. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/introduction/important.html#pkgmgt Yes. This is exactly what leads people to believe t

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Pasha Zubkov wrote: + if (c > 127) { + c = ((c ^ 192) << 6) + (getc(p) ^ 128); + } else if (c > 223) { +

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Pasha Zubkov wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: UTF-8 is _still_ not fully supported (e.g. 'tr :upper: :lower:' works only on ASCII characters, 'watch' shows only ASCII characters, 'sfdisk' misaligns button labels in non-English UTF-8 locales), but the same bugs exist in all distros (includi

Re: [LONG] Commentary and policy text in the UTF-8 patch

2006-01-01 Thread Greg Schafer
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > This completely avoids running the scripts/test-installation.pl script. > Would you count this as a cheat or as an acceptable solution? BTW DIY > has a nice description of the problem (see the first Rationale note > under http://www.diy-linux.org/x86-reference-bui

Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2006-01-01 Thread Pasha Zubkov
Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: UTF-8 is _still_ not fully supported (e.g. 'tr :upper: :lower:' works only on ASCII characters, 'watch' shows only ASCII characters, 'sfdisk' misaligns button labels in non-English UTF-8 locales), but the same bugs exist in all distros (including those which claim t