Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
DJ Lucas wrote: I'm still playing catch up with this. Please go ahead and commit if it fixes the problems you all are seeing. I see a different problem right now with /dev/null not being available That bug was fixed in r7414 by way of a `mknod' command in chapter06/udev.xml Regards, Mat

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Jürg Billeter wrote: Short preliminary report after rebuilding the base system (about 240 packages). Following problems found so far: Looking very promising! :-) - iproute2: Uses linux/if.h and linux/ip.h instead of net/if.h and netinet/ip.h. - nmap: Uses linux/if.h instead of net/if.h.

Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander, if you think that the /lib/udev/bug binary and related rules are still required I'll add them to the book on the understanding that it's only a temporary debugging tool and will be removed before release. Is Archaic's and my own testing enough, or do you think

Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: I treat the ticket 1720 as presumably-closed if the bootscript changes below are implemented, and the udev_update branch can be merged then. This mail to lfs-dev is only to state this, and ask for discussion if such discussion is needed (IMH

Re: Alphabetical Build Clean [Was Re: [Alphabetical] Build order, Bug 684, Issue with Bash patch]

2006-03-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Chris Staub wrote: OK, I've got the dependency list done - http://linuxfromscratch.org/~chris/dependencies.txt. Probably still not complete, but it's about as close as I'll ever get. Oh. That's cool. Thanks for all the hard work, Chris! I won't be around for the next few days, so either t

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-14 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: >> Well, that's that then. > > Indeed :-( Thanks to you and George for forwarding the news on. > > My own naive take on this is that Jim and co. should aim towards getting > the santizing script into a state suitable for review on LKML

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-03-15 at 09:11 +1100, Greg Schafer wrote: > Jürg Billeter wrote: > > > Very short rationale is given on top of each file group. Detailed > > rationale for each header would unfortunately be too time consuming. > > Hmmm, that's not ideal. I'm assuming you've looked at each header and

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Greg Schafer
Jürg Billeter wrote: > Very short rationale is given on top of each file group. Detailed > rationale for each header would unfortunately be too time consuming. Hmmm, that's not ideal. I'm assuming you've looked at each header and used your judgement to determine whether it should be removed or no

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Die, 2006-03-14 at 13:27 -0800, Jim Gifford wrote: > Jürg Billeter wrote: > > On Die, 2006-03-14 at 14:10 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > > > Short preliminary report after rebuilding the base system (about 240 > > packages). Following problems found so far: > > > > - dvd+rw-tools: /\b__user/

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jim Gifford
Jürg Billeter wrote: On Die, 2006-03-14 at 14:10 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: Short preliminary report after rebuilding the base system (about 240 packages). Following problems found so far: - dvd+rw-tools: /\b__user/ matched a struct in linux/capability.h whose name starts with __user. Fixed

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Die, 2006-03-14 at 14:10 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > * Verify headers with real applications >Will do a full distro (800 packages) recompilation with these headers > sometime this week and fix headers resp. applications as necessary Short preliminary report after rebuilding the base syst

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: Well, that's that then. Indeed :-( Thanks to you and George for forwarding the news on. My own naive take on this is that Jim and co. should aim towards getting the santizing script into a state suitable for review on LKML and have it added to the kernel t

Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: I treat the ticket 1720 as presumably-closed if the bootscript changes below are implemented, and the udev_update branch can be merged then. This mail to lfs-dev is only to state this, and ask for discussion if such discussion is needed (IMHO, it is not needed).

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-03-15 at 06:27 +1100, Greg Schafer wrote: > Jürg Billeter wrote: > > > Yes, LLH fails that criteria and it ships with a lot of kernel-only > > stuff. Based on Jim's script I've written an extended version which > > removes a lot of headers that shouldn't be part of the linux glibc > >

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
Thanks for your comments. On Die, 2006-03-14 at 13:05 -0500, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:10:27PM +0100, J?rg Billeter wrote: > > a="$(echo -ne '\001')" > > b="$(echo -ne '\002')" > > These can probably be simplified to: > > a=$'\001' > b=$'\002' Didn't know that, changed.

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Greg Schafer
Jürg Billeter wrote: > Yes, LLH fails that criteria and it ships with a lot of kernel-only > stuff. Based on Jim's script I've written an extended version which > removes a lot of headers that shouldn't be part of the linux glibc > header set, AFAICT. Cool. But one has to ask how you arrived at t

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:10:27PM +0100, J?rg Billeter wrote: > a="$(echo -ne '\001')" > b="$(echo -ne '\002')" These can probably be simplified to: a=$'\001' b=$'\002' > pushd $KERNEL_PATH/include I don't think you need to pushd at the start and then popd at the end of the script. The script

[Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-14 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Well, that's that then. Over to you Jim, mate. R. -- Richard A Downing FBCS CITP http://www.langside.org.uk PGP fingerprint: D682 49A5 7050 E781 229C A2F0 DE1F C040 DE78 53E8 --- Begin Message --- LLH hasn't seen a new release for a lot more than six months now and up until today I hoped to g

from LLH announce list.. it's official LLH is dead

2006-03-14 Thread George Boudreau
LLH hasn't seen a new release for a lot more than six months now and up until today I hoped to get back on track with new releases. But I've just spent some time doing a 2.6.14 update, and it came back to me, that I'd have to spend up to 10 hours just to get a basic 2.6.14.0 ready. And there'

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
ck for [us](8|16|32|64) userspace leaks and submit patches upstream * Recheck set of installed headers (add missing kernel-only headers to remove list, remove accidentally added headers from remove list) * Add support for other architectures Regards, Jürg linux-glibc-headers-20060314

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > gccver=`gcc -dumpversion` Oops, that doesn't need to be there anymore... (I attempted at one point to add -nostdinc to the gcc command line, so I needed to add the system header location (/usr/lib/gcc/$MACHTYPE/$gccver/include) to the search path. That seemed to fail, and

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-14 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Greg Schafer wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> I've been running Alexander's tests >> (http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-March/056159.html) >> > > I agree with Alexander that every userspace header should be > compilable by itself (at least in an ideal world). Note that curren