Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Greg Schafer
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:57 +, Matthew Burgess wrote: > What's your recommendation then? Pass '-j1' on the command line for all > 'make install' invocations? That's probably overkill. All I know is I've previously been burnt by both GCC and Glibc with `-j3' on 2 cores. And considering the i

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2010-02-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Also, for the people that will run an initramfs for whatever reason, > this will make it much simpler, not having to put udev in there. No, you still need udev. devtmpfs does *not* give you /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}, which are required for device name stability. devtmpf

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We might also > consider using the environment variable CONFIG_SITE to cache configure > settings. E.g. > > export CONFIG_SITE=/home/lfs/config.site > > # /home/lfs/config.site for configure > > # Give Autoconf 2.x generated configure scripts a shared de

Re: Proposing a new LFS release

2010-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Thanks to Matt's hard work, it looks like the -dev version of the book >> now has over half the packages updated from the current stable release. >> >> There only a couple of minor tickets outstanding. We are at >> Linux-2.6.32 which has been design

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Greg Schafer wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:41 +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > >> Much more clever would be to mention MAKEFLAGS in the intro somewhere, >> and add -j1 as needed for the packages that don't support parallel make. > > Exactly as currently done in DIY Linux. > >> This is what I

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: >> >> Much more clever would be to mention MAKEFLAGS in the intro somewhere, >> and add -j1 as needed for the packages that don't support parallel make. >> This is what I do in my build scripts, and out of >1300 source packages, >> I've only had to enforc

Re: Proposing a new LFS release

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Thanks to Matt's hard work, it looks like the -dev version of the book > now has over half the packages updated from the current stable release. > > There only a couple of minor tickets outstanding. We are at > Linux-2.6.32 which has been designated for long term support.

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Greg Schafer
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:41 +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Much more clever would be to mention MAKEFLAGS in the intro somewhere, > and add -j1 as needed for the packages that don't support parallel make. Exactly as currently done in DIY Linux. > This is what I do in my build scripts, and out

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mark Rosenstand wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 00:20 +, Greg Schafer wrote: >> (Sidenote: Any plans for LFS to incorporate parallel make into the build? >> Seems like a gaping omission in this day and age of commonplace multicore >> cpu's. At the very minimum, Glibc, GCC and Binutils should b

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 14:56 -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Nathan Coulson wrote: > >> I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. > >>>From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving > >> us con

Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 00:20 +, Greg Schafer wrote: > (Sidenote: Any plans for LFS to incorporate parallel make into the build? > Seems like a gaping omission in this day and age of commonplace multicore > cpu's. At the very minimum, Glibc, GCC and Binutils should be given the > option of `ma