cleanfs boot script

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In the LFS cleanfs script, we have the construct: cd /tmp && find . -xdev -mindepth 1 ! -name lost+found \ -delete || failed=1 Since I test build a lot of apps in /tmp, this instruction can take a very long time upon bootup. Can we change it to make the process a bit faster? How about som

Bug in pciutils

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Staub
The update-pciids script in pciutils has a bug. If you have both wget and lynx it works fine, otherwise (if you have one or the other, or neither) it prints the output of the which program saying that it wasn't found, but it's not supposed to. Index: trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/pciutils.xml

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Craig Jackson
Matt Wrote: > this bug has gone unnoticed thus far I'd say that > usb-snd-audio isn't widely used by LFS users and therefore the bug > should be left until 4.0.3 comes along and fixes it for us. In that case, would compiling many extra modules as part of our SVN testing be helpful or annoying? Us

Re: `backticks` or $(command) syntax

2006-02-28 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 2/28/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know right offhand if $(command) syntax is a bash-only > thing? > I think it is bash only. Definitely not compatible with sh. On the system at work: $ uname -a OSF1 server V5.1 2650 alpha $ /bin/sh -c 'echo $(ls)' /bin/sh: sy

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: WARNING: the patch is incomplete. It assumes that SCSI module autoloading rules are already added, but they are in fact not. Erm, they are in the udev-config-6.rules file, unless you've spotted a problem with those? +Create some rules that work around broke

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hello, GCC-4.0.2 has a bug that prevents building kernel modules that use compound literals. See http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1718 for details. As that ticket mentions, the only affected kernel code is the usb-snd-audio driver. GCC Bugzilla sear

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/28/06, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > On the other hand, I suppose if it's going to be included in 4.0.3 > > anyway, it's probably better safe than sorry and we should just drop it > > in for all gcc builds, eh? > > If it's not needed in chapter 5, I'd

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On the other hand, I suppose if it's going to be included in 4.0.3 anyway, it's probably better safe than sorry and we should just drop it in for all gcc builds, eh? If it's not needed in chapter 5, I'd not bother. Basically the less we need to do in Chapter 5, the bett

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan Nicholson wrote: Thoughts? Could someone get that patch into the book? The upstream bug report says this affects certain kernel modules due to their abusing compound literals. Would anything else in the book be affected? IOW, is this patch necessary in any of the chapter 5 gcc builds?

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/28/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GCC Bugzilla search (http://tinyurl.com/k7sx9) shows 25 other fixed critical bugs targetted at 4.0.3. What should be done with them? I think we should only backport the patches that we need to stop any show stopp

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan Nicholson wrote: Thoughts? Could someone get that patch into the book? If no one else gets to it, and it is slow enough here at work, I'll try to get it in later today. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe:

Re: Xorg -configure Duplicate symbol (6.8.2)

2006-02-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > Just for the fun of it, ...meh, I have recompiled 6.8.2 with a > new buildscript. (the buildscript has been filled with the HLFS > xorg-6.8.2 build commands, copied from the page, so no typos (of > mine) ) Again, Xorg -configure failed, so I tried

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/28/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GCC Bugzilla search (http://tinyurl.com/k7sx9) shows 25 other fixed > critical bugs targetted at 4.0.3. What should be done with them? I think we should only backport the patches that we need to stop any show stoppers. This -fno-uni

gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, GCC-4.0.2 has a bug that prevents building kernel modules that use compound literals. See http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1718 for details. GCC Bugzilla search (http://tinyurl.com/k7sx9) shows 25 other fixed critical bugs targetted at 4.0.3. What should be done with them?