Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> Sorry for the repeat, folks. I sent this the first time in an HTML > message, and evidently it took five days to get through the review > process. After two days, I resent it in plaintext, and that's what > spurred the conversation. I only go through lfs-dev's pending moderation list abo

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 12:52 CST: > It's their stable branch which contains many backported bug fixes and > they're not producing any more releases. Is it better to use a known > buggy glibc-2.5? If glibc-2.5.1 was imminent, I'd say wait, but recent > history would suggest it'

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/14/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 10:34 CST: > > > I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been > > addressed. I'd like to see if glibc-2.5.1 will happen, but we can > > certainly just use the latest branch_update p

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 10:34 CST: > I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been > addressed. I'd like to see if glibc-2.5.1 will happen, but we can > certainly just use the latest branch_update patch. Just out of curiosity, why are we continually updating t

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Jon Fullmer
Sorry for the repeat, folks. I sent this the first time in an HTML message, and evidently it took five days to get through the review process. After two days, I resent it in plaintext, and that's what spurred the conversation. Please ignore. - Jon On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Jon Full

SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread Jon Fullmer
Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g

Re: Safer linux-headers install

2007-07-14 Thread Luca
- Original Message - From: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: Re: Safer linux-headers install > So, I thought about this a little and decided to just use the hammer > approach of INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest, cp d

Re: Safer linux-headers install

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/11/07, Luca/Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Unless it's going to be accepted upstream, then I'm not really > > interested in adding a patch here which takes one extra command to > > workaround. Which, now that I look again, makes this much eas

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/8/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I think it's about time we start pushing out a 6.3 release. What > do you guys think? Here are the outstanding issues I can think of. Matthew, ping? Any thoughts on this? I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been addre

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 13 de Julio de 2007 18:18, Ivan Kabaivanov escribió: > actually there's a notice just before the command you've quoted. This > is what I'm referring to: > > > If working on a platform where the name of the dynamic linker is > something other than ld-linux.so.2, replace “ld-linux.so.2

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-14 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 14 de Julio de 2007 01:26, Dan Nicholson escribió: > > I would actually really like to add x86_64 (non-multilib to start) > support to LFS and BLFS. It's becoming increasingly uncommon to even > be able to purchase a non-64bit processor at this point. We can > basically copy what Greg's