Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/09/2010 10:50 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Drew Ames wrote: >> What you say is true for the root user, > > Nope, it's true for the non-root user that I run as, every day, as > well. - ---snip--- > But I'm seeing that section 6.2 is wrong; it isn't

Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Drew Ames wrote: > What you say is true for the root user, Nope, it's true for the non-root user that I run as, every day, as well. Every time I start urxvt or xterm, in fact. My pt_chowns -- both of them, since this is a multilib system and each bit-size glibc installed its own -- are user:group

Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/09/2010 05:20 AM, max wrote: > Hi, > > here are my notes. Max, your notes are wonderful! I had no trouble with the bootscripts and my experience building and installing the kernel were the same as yours. With your permission, I'd like to compil

Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/09/2010 01:16 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > max wrote: >> Chapter 6.12: binutils-2.20 >> --- >> /tools/libexec/pt_chown needs to be suid root at this point, > > Not if devpts is set up correctly -- or at least, that used to b

Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread Bryan Kadzban
max wrote: > Chapter 6.12: binutils-2.20 > --- > /tools/libexec/pt_chown needs to be suid root at this point, Not if devpts is set up correctly -- or at least, that used to be the case a couple years ago. You don't need pt_chown if the kernel is creating the /dev/pts/* dev

Re: LFS-build-notes

2010-10-09 Thread max
Hi, here are my notes. I generally keep manually created configuration files as root. You will notice that I build LFS-6.6 on a Virtual machine (32-bit emulation). But I think that the procedure is also valid for a 'real' machine. My last LFS was 6.3 on a real machine and it also build fine with t