Re: Status of HLFS project

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Day
For a stable project to happen, you should probably fight the urge to make any kind of change whatsoever. To do that, plan the entire project in a manner similar to the following: 1) Make a list of sources/projects/scripts/hacks/instructions that are currently stable 2) Make a list of $(above) t

Re: Status of HLFS project

2006-09-14 Thread Robert Connolly
For the TODO list: Solve testsuite bugs. These are almost always caused by one or more of the compiler flags, and almost always only affect the testsuite. Glibc has exceptions to this rule. Add -fno-flags to CC, CFLAGS, and/or CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET during testsuites. Compiler warnings often have pa

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/14/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Hmm; maybe something like: > > Apply the following patch to fix an assertion failure when opening > two conversion descriptors with the same tocode and fromcode parameters > (see the iconv_open man page): Much better.

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Hmm; maybe something like: Apply the following patch to fix an assertion failure when opening two conversion descriptors with the same tocode and fromcode parameters (see the iconv_open man page): Much better. Thanks Bryan! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/14/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What about using the description that's in iconv_open(3C): >> >> Apply the following patch to fix a bug when trying to >> allocate a conversion descriptor for converting byte sequences >> between the same character

Re: Status of HLFS project

2006-09-14 Thread Jason Stevens
Robert Connolly wrote: I'm sorry to say I'm much better being an hlfs-unstable maintainer than hlfs-stable maintainer. I'd love to have hlfs-stable, but I never stop finding things to break/fix :-) If releasing hlfs-stable is a priority then it would be a good idea to create a second branch w

Re: Status of HLFS project

2006-09-14 Thread Jan Dvořák
Hi, >>> It's active, but I seem to be the only maintainer and I work 55 hours >>> per week. >> I don't have exactly *much* time either, but I'd like to help you. Alas, >> I'm not much C-positive. So, first I'm going to study new HLFS features >> and then I'll build to see how it goes. > Well I'd l

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/14/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apply the following patch to fix an issue with using identical conversion modules in iconv: I couldn't understand what the issue was by looking at that description. The description in the patch is even more vague. Looking at the test cas

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hi everyone, I've been working on getting glibc-2.4 into the book over the past few days. Everything is looking pretty promising so far. Fantastic, thanks for tackling this one Dan. The only comment I've got is pretty minor: Apply the following patch to fix an issue wi

Glibc-2.4

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
Hi everyone, I've been working on getting glibc-2.4 into the book over the past few days. Everything is looking pretty promising so far. Here's a little status report. I'm using jhalfs, so I've already got the book diffs done. Built on two hosts, one Athlon XP 2100+ and a Pentium III 500. One co