Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread pham.the.chung0
what is e2fsprogs ? 2011/10/6 John Stanley > The modified e2fsprogs build looks like a nice solution to me, > especially since the external glib dependency looks like a bit > of a 'slippery slope' to unnecessary complexity. Thanks everyone. > John > > On 10/05/2011 08:06 PM, Andrew Benton wrote

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread John Stanley
The modified e2fsprogs build looks like a nice solution to me, especially since the external glib dependency looks like a bit of a 'slippery slope' to unnecessary complexity. Thanks everyone. John On 10/05/2011 08:06 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:07 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote:

Re: RFC: Fixing udev_retry

2011-10-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:45:13 -0700, Bryan Kadzban >> wrote: >>> Longer term, we can remove the --type=failed invocation entirely, >>> although maybe that's better done as part of this change? >> >> I'd prefer to do that in this change. As you mentio

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:07 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > That sounds like a nice simple approach. Does it still place its .pc > files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig? > Yes, it installed /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ext2fs.pc Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/10/2011 22:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: That sounds like a nice simple approach. Does it still place its .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig? Hi Bruce, Here's the complete patch I've kicked off a test build with. Your machine may just beat mine though, if you want to verify it :-) Regards,

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 2:03:35 -0600 > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> My preferred way of handling the glib/pkg-config requirement in LFS Chapter 6 >> at the moment is to "fix" e2fsprogs so that it doesn't require pkg-config at >> all (see >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/piper

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 2:03:35 -0600 Matthew Burgess wrote: > My preferred way of handling the glib/pkg-config requirement in LFS Chapter 6 > at the moment is to "fix" e2fsprogs so that it doesn't require pkg-config at > all (see > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2011-September/065

Re: RFC: Fixing udev_retry

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:45:13 -0700, Bryan Kadzban > wrote: >> See the attached patch for what I propose we do, at least in the short >> term, or possibly longer as well. >> >> It changes udev_retry to (in addition to using --type=failed) read >> /etc/sysconfig/udev_retry

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread John Stanley
Regarding Python, yes it does, but I think only for the dbus-related testing parts. So, if dbus is not found on the system, Python will not be needed as I recall. The dbus (and hence Python) issue did arise for me as I use the base system as a 'maintenance root' for doing base package upgrades fo

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:53:52 -0400, John Stanley wrote: > There doesn't seem to be an easy way to turn off the > libffi requirement, which is unfortunate, as libglib itself > doesn't need it. On the other hand, I've been building > lfs/blfs-like systems for several years now, and end up > ins

Re: RFC: Fixing udev_retry

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:45:13 -0700, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > See the attached patch for what I propose we do, at least in the short > term, or possibly longer as well. > > It changes udev_retry to (in addition to using --type=failed) read > /etc/sysconfig/udev_retry (name TBD, but this works for m