Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree. > > I still don't think instructions should be special for this situation. > If you chose a host that doesn't provide the necessary developmen

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:03 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist > Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > > >> Loren Foret wrote: >>> More like linux

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Joe
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > This comes up occasionally because users do not read section iv. > > "Your host system should have the following software with the minimum > versions indicated." > > and > > "To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run > the following:" > > Reread >

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 5.7. Adjusting the Toolchain

2008-04-04 Thread Joe
Dennis Clarke wrote: > It may be reasonable to include a line or two for RISC (PPC/ARM etc) based > people that may get different output from compiling that dummy.c code. > That's essentially what that Important note at the top of the page, and its link to Toolchain Technical Notes, does. Joe

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. >

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:20 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure Loren Foret wrote: > More like linux from any distro. But I think the

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Joe wrote: > Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a boo

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a book", it may be

Re: SVN-JH-20080403 5.7. Adjusting the Toolchain

2008-04-04 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: > It may be reasonable to include a line or two for RISC (PPC/ARM etc) based > people that may get different output from compiling that dummy.c code. Sure, if you're willing to continue to provide the appropriate data. :) Of course, a balance needs to be struck, too. More tha

Re: e2fsprogs in chapter 5?

2008-04-04 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> As I'm going through the book, I realized I couldn't place why e2fsprogs >> is built in chapter 5. The description about udev needing its headers >> makes no sense to me... > > util-linux-ng needs either libblkid from e2fsprogs or libvolum

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Joe
Loren Foret wrote: > More like linux from any distro. But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more than a book", it may be worthwhi

SVN-JH-20080403 5.7. Adjusting the Toolchain

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
I get different, and correct, output from the common sense check. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/build$ mkdir foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/build$ cd foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/build/foo$ echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/build/foo$ cc dummy.c [

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Dubbs Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:58 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure Dennis Clarke wrote: > What is Linux From "Scratch" all abou

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dennis Clarke wrote: > What is Linux From "Scratch" all about? Linux From "Some Distro" ? No, it's Linux And Other Useful Programs From Source. If we wanted to get pedantic, we could start from an assembler and build a compiler and then the rest. The starting point is somewhat arbitrary and w

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> >> >> Then ple

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. > >> > >> Then please add gawk

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate >> Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectiv

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 PM, J. Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > >> You really need gawk, not mawk. > >> > > > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLin

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > You really need gawk, not mawk. > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. The host requirements sp

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread J. Greenlees
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> You really need gawk, not mawk. >> > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. and here I was thinking that a note that bison is required to be in