Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Why is a configuration file needed at all? Is this because, IIUC, man-pages don't store their character encodings anywhere, therefore we need to tell groff and man what encodings we need to translate between? Partially correct. Also, one condition that is imposed on the

Build Logs for 6.2

2006-08-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Someone just signed onto IRC and asked when the build logs are going to be available. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/6.2/ - Appears to be empty. I don't normally run test-suites or I'd send you my logs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Merry
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:39:21PM +, Peter wrote: > Sorry, I was a bit sloppy in the last message. > My question summarized - Is the following > command OK? > > mkdir -pv ${LFS}/{dev{/pts,/shm},proc,sys} But you're creating ${LFS}/dev (presumably for the first time), so I guess you are then

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Peter wrote: > I would use this in place of what is > in 6.2.3. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems. > I want to take care of the mount error that is > possible by resetting the build from > scratch without a reboot because the > book does not explicitly create pts and shm > and leaves it up to mo

Re: 35 patches and counting!

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Or, better, drop the UTF-8 support completely from LFS. It is unmaintainable, and in fact not ready in "vanilla upstream". This also means dropping Nautilus CD Burner from BLFS. I realise that was in markers, but still, I have to disagree. Part of my motivation

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Peter
Alex Merry ccc.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:51:47PM +, Peter Ennis wrote: > > Is it OK to explicitly create > > dev/pts and dev/shm before mount --bind ? > > This will fix my situation. > > No. This will definitely not help, as they will be covered by mount > --bind. Yo

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Merry
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:51:47PM +, Peter Ennis wrote: > Is it OK to explicitly create > dev/pts and dev/shm before mount --bind ? > This will fix my situation. No. This will definitely not help, as they will be covered by mount --bind. You may want to look at the --bind option in `man 8 mo