Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/lfs-patch-status.html. That page says: Linux UTF-8 Input - Drop the patch and replace it with one that looks more likely to be accepted upstream with the pointer to http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.0/1362.ht

Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/6/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/06/06 16:16 CST: > A recent article on lwn.net discussing LFS > (http://lwn.net/Articles/192904/) attracted the following comment: I'd like to see what they say about Redhat Fedora. They use patches on

Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/06/06 16:16 CST: > A recent article on lwn.net discussing LFS > (http://lwn.net/Articles/192904/) attracted the following comment: > > "...it's worrying the number of little patches that the LFS instructions > say need applying to the upstream source: why

Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Hi folks. A recent article on lwn.net discussing LFS (http://lwn.net/Articles/192904/) attracted the following comment: "...it's worrying the number of little patches that the LFS instructions say need applying to the upstream source: why aren't they included upstream

Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Κυρ, Αύγ 06, at 10:16 Matthew Burgess wrote: Excellent job Matthew and a very good idea. I believe we all agree with your point,that 17 patches are very high number for the LFS standards. By the way,and with this chance. I believe the LFS projects needs a man (or perhaps better: A very small

Re: Bison/Yacc Host requirement

2006-08-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/5/06, Thinus Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know where this is supposed to go. Host system requirements does not mention bison or yacc. My bash ./configure command failed looking for yacc in chapter 5. Resolution is a breeze, just install bison Thanks for the report. Bison sho

35 patches and counting!

2006-08-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks. A recent article on lwn.net discussing LFS (http://lwn.net/Articles/192904/) attracted the following comment: "...it's worrying the number of little patches that the LFS instructions say need applying to the upstream source: why aren't they included upstream already?" As a result