Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.16.0

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:55:42 +0100 Matt Burgess wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 18:20 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > (We won't hit the libgcc_s.so problem with Gcc until we start using > > Gcc-4.7.2) > > Hi Andy, I've finally gotten around to looking at t

[lfs-dev] Glibc-2.16.0

2012-07-01 Thread Andrew Benton
I hope you are all well. Glibc-2.16.0 has been released http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.16.0.tar.xz The good news is that it no longer needs the patches that are in current LFS. However, there are still some problems with it. Firstly, the libgcc_s.so issue: /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it > was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to > keep it for a week or two. > > The reason is that although I've built everything except for some > gnom

[lfs-dev] libgcc_s.so breakage

2012-06-28 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello All >From the "that's what you get for touching that" dept: I've been testing the development versions of gcc and glibc (from svn and git) and lately I've seen some breakage related to libgcc_s.so. Current Glibc fails to build with a LD cannot find -lgcc_s error. Grepping the source for -l

Re: [lfs-dev] stack at compiling glibc

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:14:00 +0100 Okrah Asante wrote: > hello world, > i am going throug lfs 7.1 and cannot "make" after configuring glibc 2.15 > with an error : *configure: error: gcc must provide the header. > *how can solve this problem. This is the development mailing list, for discussi

Re: [lfs-dev] udev : testing Bryan's systemd-make-systemd-optional.patch

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:19:18 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been watching the mailing lists and William Hubbs has been trying > to get a set of patches into systemd for several days. He is being > ignored by upstream AFAICT. They have seemed quite arrogant about it in > the past when they h

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:32:04 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I have built linux-3.4.1 in five machines. No problems, as with the > unstable 3.4.0, which required a patch or sed for one of the machines. > > One can see in https://www.kernel.org/: > > "Latest Stable Kernel: > Download >

Re: [lfs-dev] popt in the book?

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:30:29 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > The current headers-install command in the kernel tree is a perl script, > but there exists a patch to replace it with a very simple shell script > (and I believe the intent is to submit it upstream). Glibc also requires > perl for so

Re: [lfs-dev] systemd - another failed attempt.

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:34:51 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > 2. but then make dies at > CC src/shared/libsystemd_units_la-install.lo > In file included from src/shared/path-lookup.h:33:0, > from src/shared/install.c:33: > ./src/core/manager.h:28:23: fatal error: dbus/dbus.h: No

Re: [lfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:59 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The current version, Dan's version, and the 'lite' verion all fail the > same test for me. I get the same test failure with both pkg-config-0.26 and pkg-config-lite-0.26-1. With both of them I can make all tests pass if I configure them --

Re: [lfs-dev] pkg-config

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:59 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I am of the opinion that we should re-introduce pkg-config into LFS. I > think it would make things simplier for both LFS and BLFS. > > pkg-config would make building kmod, libpipeline, man-db, and > udev/systemd all easier in LFS. > >

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:22:00 +0100 Andrew Benton wrote: > When they merged udev and systemd they said that it'd be possible to > install just udev without systemd but with the very first merged > release it is impossible to install udev without all of systemd's > depe

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 23:49:25 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Check these out: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/ That looks good. It installs /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 which we need. "This is pkg-config-lite-0.26-1, based on pkg-config-0.26. pkg-config-lite is based on pkg-confi

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 23:03:17 +0100 wrote: > I've created a patch to systemd-183/{Makefile.am,configure.ac}. > > No dbus, pam, tcp-wrappers. Only kmod and blkid needed. > > It strips out everything but libudev, udevadmin, and udevd ( now called > that again), rules, helpers, and tests. > > lib

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:38:21 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Since when does glib require Python? I think Python's been a required dep since glib-2.32. It may be possible to build glib without python but it will need more than configure switches. > Are you using glib2? IIRC, > pkg-config up unt

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:51:28 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Did you try in a Chapter 6 environment? I can't get it to work without > pkg-config. No, I think your make.sh is a better bet for an LFS Chapter 6 build. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 22:20:25 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Well Dan, I've run into a problem with autoconf that I can't figure out > how to solve. configure.ac has several lines like: > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES(KMOD, [libkmod >= 5]) > > Now that's a reasonable check, but requires cfg.m4 which is inst

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 16:58:00 +0100 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Try this diff for configure.ac. It helps. I can get through configure Ok, but I can't see a way to get through make without dbus. Andy udev-only.patch Description: Binary data -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:05:19 +0100 Dan Nicholson wrote: > Here's an update. I forgot that [] are quotes in autoconf, so you > usually end up using test instead. I still didn't test it works all > the way, but I think configure should run. Withthis patch automake fails with: Makefile.am:1447: Ca

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:58:08 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > Actually, for some of us they *are* scary. I thought I was making > some progress (persuaded autoreconf to complete without errors using > the attached -A.patch), but then configure went into an infinite > loop spewing out '=no' lines. Tha

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:52:34 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Now, I see i forgot the patch? Please, find it attached If you decide to use it (3.4 compiles fine for me BTW), the change could be made with a sed: sed -i '/__iommu_table/a\\t"(jiffies|jiffies_64)|"' \ arch/x86/tools/relocs.c

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:28:11 +0100 Qrux wrote: > > On May 17, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Since you are using Applemail, I think the problem is that it is using \r > > for > > newlines instead of \n. I see your mail wrapped, but when replying, it > > doesn't > > wrap automat

Re: [lfs-dev] resizecons not installed by kbd

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 11 May 2012 00:11:47 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > But looking at upstream git it's already > fixed in configure.ac: > > case $host_cpu in > i?86*) RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes ;; > x86_64*) RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes ;; > *) RESIZECONS_PROGS=no ;; > esac > > There is a patc

[lfs-dev] Rename sources?

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello All, There's a rather ill natured thread on LFS Support at the moment called Chapter 5 questions. Scott Robertson has made an interesting point: On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:35:32 +0100 Scott Robertson wrote: > > But do you not see from a newcomers > perspective that you seem to use "source d

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 02 May 2012 01:41:47 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > The downside was that I got one new (to me) test failure in > iconvdata: > make[2]: *** [/usr/src/glibc-build/iconvdata/tst-tables.out] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [iconvdata/tests] Error 2 > make[2]: [/usr/src/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 23:12:16 +0100 Matt Burgess wrote: > This is upstream bug 13579 > (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13579) and the > attached patch should fix it. Would you mind giving it a try please? > The patch attached to that bug is essentially the same as the one I a

Re: [lfs-dev] Broken sound (glibc).

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it > was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to > keep it for a week or two. > > The reason is that although I've built everything except for some > gnom

Re: [lfs-dev] Cherry picking r9818 and r9822 for trunk

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:38:19 +0100 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 4/23/12 4:33 PM, Matt Burgess wrote: > > The fix for this is to add > > --with-native-system-header-dir=/tools/include to GCC's pass1 and pass2 > > builds so that it doesn't look at /usr/include at all. > > For the current build meth

Re: [blfs-dev] [Solved] webkit-1.8.0: configure and gtk-doc problems

2012-04-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:41:35 +0100 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > "... > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 > > ./Documentation/webkitgtk/html/WebKitWebWindowFeatur > > es.html > > GENinstall-data-local > > Running gtkdoc-rebase > > Rebasing WebKit1 documentation... > > Traceback (most recent

Re: [lfs-dev] [lfs-support] Ncurses compilation during the Temp Tools stage

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:15:11 +0100 Эмиль Кранц wrote: > Hello all. > Ncurses configure script during the Temp tools stage (chapter 5.15) > gives an error, requesting to be complied against gpm. As gpm is > installed in BLFS, the key "--without-gpm" should be passed to the > configure script, in a

Re: [lfs-dev] suggest check for ed

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:01:51 +0100 Cyril LEVIS wrote: > Hi, > > I think the test script in part vii should check for "ed" binary. It is > not installed by default on a debian-testing-amd64-netinst for example > (like my previous gawk and bison) Just out of intrest, why should we care if ed is

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc-2.15

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:56:23 + Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It looks like glibc-2.15 is about to be released: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.15.tar.xz is in the repository but > I can't find a release announcement yet. Patch to use glibc-2.15 Andy glibc-2.15.patch Description: Binary

Re: [lfs-dev] pass1 gcc 4.7.0 glibc 2.15 fails

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:46:11 + wrote: > This was necessary otherwise make install was trying to creating the > directory /var/db (for nss) So after checking various Makefile and as a > probably temporary solution I specifiy > > make install_root=/tools install Another option is to: sed -

[lfs-dev] gcc-4.7.0 patch

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello a simple patch to use gcc-4.7 in the book. Andy gcc.patch Description: Binary data -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-dev] siginfo breakage

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, A recent change in glibc has broken compiling gcc on i686 http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4efeffc1d583597e4f52985b9747269e47b754e2 The solution is to change struct siginfo to siginfo_t sed -i 's#struct siginfo #siginfo_t #' libgcc/config/*/linux-unwind.h

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:27:34 + Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Matt and I are very reluctant to change a working implementation. > From what we can gather, gcc-4.7/glibc-2.15(?) changes things and will > require some LFS changes. We need to be concentrating on that. In my experience Jeremy's bui

Re: [lfs-dev] I give a try with glibc 2.14.1 and gcc 4.7.0-RC-20120314

2012-03-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:25:32 + Thierry Nuttens wrote: > Hello > > As every year, I'm giving a try to the next coming version of gcc 4.7.0 which > should be release very soon. Unfortunately, the pass2 of gcc has making some > problems because of (I guess) the sed which change the STANDARD_I

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:05:49 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Has anyone else had a chance to try out the build fully and compare? I'm > waiting to hear more of a consensus from others who have tested it > before I drop this in, although I'm confident it's sound. It works for me. I've integrated

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:05:37 + Pierre Labastie wrote: > I have libgfortran, libgo, libffi, libjava, libobjc in the source dir! > Could it be that > since you do not have those dirs, configure somehow "forgets" to > disable target-zlib? Have you tried to build > with the full source of gcc?

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:37:30 + "Gilles Espinasse" wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Benton" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:00 PM > Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1 > > > > On Tue,

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:06:33 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > What's your CPU? andy@eccles:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 30 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz stepping: 5 microcod

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:40:03 + Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm having a problem with why this is happening. Me too... > The jhalfs vanilla LFS > svn build worked perfectly for me. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/033-gcc-pass1 Looking at your log I see: *** This configuration is

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:02:47 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Here's my log: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1 > > And the script that generated it: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1.sh For me, the build fails whilst it's trying to configure the sec

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:02:47 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Here's my log: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1 > > And the script that generated it: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/033-gcc-pass1.sh Here are mine: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/033-gcc-pa

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:19:19 + Andrew Benton wrote: > checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are > not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES. > make[2]: *** [configure-target-zlib] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/sources/gcc-build' &g

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:24 + Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:27 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + > > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> I'd like to get to the bottom of the issues you're seeing as they

[lfs-dev] glibc timezone/zoneinfo

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello FYI, it seems that timezone/zoneinfo data are no longer installed by glibc (from git). It still installs zic, and the files are still in the source tree so you can use zic to generate /etc/localtime, however, more up to date files are available at http://www.iana.org/time-zones Andy -- htt

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:17:54 + Pierre Labastie wrote: > I've run binutils/gcc-pass1 following Jeremy's patch, with gcc-4.6.3, > so without --disable-target-*. > > It compiles. zlib is compiled in the gcc-build/zlib directory, with the > host toolchain, then linked to gcc after building gcc.

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:36:15 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > The book fails for me installing glibc, I > > have to add libc_cv_ctors_header=yes to glibc's configure options. But > > you knew that, it

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:21 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 3/12/12 7:24 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > > I mainly use my current LFS install, I get the same errors if I use a > > Fedora or Ubuntu live CD. > > Which version specifically? If I get a chance, I'll downlo

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:47:51 + Pierre Labastie wrote: > OK, sorry, > I use --disable-target-zlib. Anyway : any library will be supposed to > run on the target, > so be compiled with xgcc. As an exception, I think libiberty, if not > disabled, is compiled > twice: once to run on the host and

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:47:16 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Yes, when you are cross compiling you (typically) can't bootstrap, so > they disable the bootstrap if it's determined you are building a cross > compiler. So where we would normally need the --disable-bootstrap > switch, we don't here

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess wrote: > I must admit to being really confused by your need for these workarounds. Me too. It makes me feel stupid. > Is this from your Fedora 16 Live CD? I'm building from a Fedora 16 host > with all updates from 'yum update' on an x86_64 box

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:19:46 + Matt Burgess wrote: > OK, the paragraph above your output stated that it "fails for me at the > first pass of gcc", hence why I tested against the first pass of GCC. > That said, I *now* notice that paragraph also states your results are > from testing JH's new

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:31:41 + Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:39 +, Andrew Benton wrote: > > I'm still no nearer to figuring out why I get this error. Trying to > > follow Jeremy's new newlib build method fails for me at the first pass

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:54:44 + Matt Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:39 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:40:49 + > > Matt Burgess wrote: > > > > > > > > Andy hit issues that were discussed in the thread starting a

[lfs-dev] Shadow 4.1.5 - su: Cannot drop the controlling terminal

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I've just changed to shadow-4.1.5 and it's caused me a problem. When I launch Xorg I do it with a bootscript like this: user=andy su - ${user} -c "xinit /etc/X11/xinitrc &> ~/.x-session-errors" With shadow-4.1.4.3 it worked fine but with shadow-4.1.5 I get an error: su: Cannot drop the c

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:36:08 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > So it is. Do you want me to change them or do you want to do it? I'll do it Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:38 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > My proposal is to just skip 'arch' completely as I do not believe it is > not used anywhere in LFS/BLFS. It is used in several places in BLFS (eg the pages for Liba52, nss and nspr), but I'm sure uname -m will work just as well. Andy --

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-Linux configure options

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:06:11 + Matt Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > I'm tackling #3002 (upgrading Util-Linux to 2.21). Bruce suggested the > use of '--enable-new-mount' so that we will use the new libmount based > version of 'mount'. It's marked as EXPERIMENTAL in configure's help, > but I'm happ

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:57:01 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Yeah, as I've read more about it it seems like the culprit may be > libtool, so effectively gcc's build system. What the exact trigger is > that makes it different on various systems still isn't clear. > > So I'll concede that the pat

Re: [blfs-dev] Packages which could be removed.

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:33:46 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Until you physically removed some > > things this weekend, my impression was that the xml for old packages > > always remained in the book, but the packages were commented in > > general.ent and in whichever xml file

Re: [blfs-dev] New package: Wicd

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:41:17 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > I would like to add the wicd package to BLFS. > > For those of you who do not know it, it is a network connection manager, > similar to NetworkManager but not as feature rich, and written in python. > > It can manage wired and wire

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:37:20 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > The patch is good to have as a workaround, but I'd like to find out what > the issue is that's causing this. I fear it's either a problem with your > host's compiler or a bug in the GCC build system. Check out: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bu

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:40:49 + Matt Burgess wrote: > > Andy hit issues that were discussed in the thread starting at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2011-March/064617.html > > When I have a bit more time, I'll try to build again without the patch, > and if others could a

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:43:05 -0800 Qrux wrote: > [~/lfs/src/openssl-1.0.0e] # grep ENGINESDIR $(find . -name "*.c" -o -name > "*.h") > ./crypto/engine/eng_list.c: if((load_dir = > getenv("OPENSSL_ENGINES")) == 0) load_dir = ENGINESDIR; > ./crypto/opensslconf.h:#define ENGINESDIR "/usr/

Re: [blfs-dev] other filesystem utilities

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:04:33 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Also, util-linux plans to add GPT support into fdisk in version 2.22. > That's probably six months away. Thanks, that's good news. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/fa

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:33:49 -0800 Qrux wrote: > Back to the unanswered question (2): Andrew, does your machine (pure-64 > build) have the LFS-7.0-release toolchain, It's more like current LFS svn, there are few packages that are not up to date in my scripts but not many. With kmod I'm actually

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:27:17 -0800 Qrux wrote: > > On Feb 29, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:02:59 -0800 > > Qrux wrote: > > > >> I don't think anyone referred to precomp bins. I presume all discussions > &

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:02:59 -0800 Qrux wrote: > I don't think anyone referred to precomp bins. I presume all discussions > here are about source builds. > > 1) Which BLFS version? Current. > 2) Are you on a 64-bit only platform? My 64 bit systems are pure x86_64 with everything in /lib. >

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:15:27 -0800 Qrux wrote: > As for the "64-bit" works in practice...BIND is an example of a downstream > app that seems to want to look in /lib64. Whether it's looking for > ld64.so.1, ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, or something else even, I can't say. I do > know that it doesn't

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:31:26 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I'll revert the 64-bit stuff and regen the diff. Sigh... Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0800 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > 5. Since we don't support multilib, remove all toolchain uses of > > lib64. No need for those symlinks any more. Everything goes to lib. > > I don't think this is a good idea. > > The 64-bit x86 SysV ABI *REQU

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:49:07 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Please review and test the actual changes. I'd like to commit this to > trunk, but I want to hear opinions first. The rendered book is here: > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/sysroot/ > > And a full diff of the changes is here:

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-linux arch command

2012-02-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:43:11 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to remove it from my working copy of the book and make a test > run to see if not having it runs into any problems. > > I do want to leave it in for 7.1 just because its a minor issue and we > don't have enough time to test it t

[lfs-dev] /etc/shells

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I notice that on the BLFS pages for dash and zsh we add them to /etc/shells so that people can change their shell with chsh (installed as part of shadow). However, grepping through LFS for /etc/shells finds nothing. /etc/shells is not needed until we install shadow so perhaps we could echo /

Re: [lfs-dev] test on LFS 7.1-rc1: ICA + suggestion

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:47:00 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > I have done a test of LFS-7.1-rc1. ICA went OK, except the > already reported problem with ld.so.cache (ldconfig still missing > somewhere), which is not a big issue. In case somebody else > does ICA, there is this difference in

Re: [lfs-dev] test on LFS 7.1-rc1: ICA + suggestion

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:47:00 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > I have done a test of LFS-7.1-rc1. ICA went OK, except the > already reported problem with ld.so.cache (ldconfig still missing > somewhere), which is not a big issue. In case somebody else > does ICA, there is this difference in

Re: [blfs-dev] Git-1.7.9 issues

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:50:51 +0200 Thanos Baloukas wrote: > Hello everybody > I just subscribed on this list. I hope I can help. > > The book states python-2.7.2 as required dependency. I'm not sure if the > INSTALL source tree's file is up to date, but it says nothing about > python. Except z

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56:55 -0800 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Looks like Uli broke it again: > > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=c3a87236702cb73be1dada3438bbd3c3934e83f8 > > If you remove that "&& defined __USE_GNU" off the end of the #if line, I > bet it'll work fine. It may

Re: [lfs-dev] The case of libgmpxx

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:01:30 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > If I understand the xxx.la files, they are used by libtool to find > libraries. I am certainly missing something, but I do not understand > why changing tools to usr in libstdc++.la would give a better > result. When gmp is built (ie bef

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Ok, so I reverted to type and resorted to simple sed hacks to bludgeon my way forward. This enabled the second pass of gcc to compile and install into /tools: sed -i '/::gets/d' libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cstdio After that, coreutils, diffutils, gettext, gzip, tar and m4 all needed variations

Re: [lfs-dev] The case of libgmpxx

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:00:37 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > Looks like the libstdc++.a built during chapter 5 cannot be used... > Some missing -fPIC during build of libstdc++? > (-fPIC is indeed used for C++ bindings during the build of gmp) > > So, I do not know what to do. Well, does it make a

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:46:24 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Maybe try (supposing the build tree has not been removed): > > > > echo '#include' |/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc > > \ > > -B/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc -nostdinc++ \ > > -B/tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:49:37 -0800 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:44:34 -0800 Bryan Kadzban > > wrote: > > > >> Do you get __USE_ISOC11 #define'd (to what value?) or #undef'ed? > >> What about __cplusplu

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:44:34 -0800 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > But according to that bugzilla page, the bug was fixed weeks ago? The > > 'fix' is definitely in the glibc source so it would appear that it's > > not working. > > I as

[lfs-dev] glibc '::gets' breakage

2012-02-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I've tried to build LFS with current glibc from git (well, current as of yesterday) and the second pass of gcc (the first one after installing glibc into /tools) failed like this: Making all in libsupc++ make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libst

Re: [lfs-dev] Second report from ICA use

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:28:19 +0100 Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe another thing to worry about: > -- > --- iteration-1/usr/lib/libgmpxx.la > +++ iteration-2/usr/lib/libgmpxx.la > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ > inherited_linker_flags='' > > # Librarie

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:47:36 + Ken Moffat wrote: > I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more > or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems to be where development > that will get into the kernel seems to be happening, although I'm > not sure it's yet ready (e.g. fsc

[lfs-dev] Udev-177 and a monolithic kernel

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, When I'm booting with udev-177 I get a cryptic message output to the screen in amongst the bootscripts that reads: udevd[120]: No such file or directory Is anyone else seeing this? I suspect it may be due to kmod looking for something that is not present in a monolithic kernel. When I run

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:49 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > udev is dropping support of module-init-tools for a new package called > kmod. It seems that kmod is required for udev-177: checking for KMOD... no configure: error: Package requirements (libkmod >= 3) were not met: No package 'libkmod'

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:22:45 -0800 Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > But yes, if you want to do a modules-only build you do need to rebuild the > initramfs when you change kernels. Or at least the /lib/modules bit of it. My > point was just that, since the current direct-boot method is "you must be >

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Direction

2012-01-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:49 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There appears appears to be a movement to consolidate /bin and /usr/bin, > /lib and /usr/lib, and /sbin and /usr/sbin. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove I like this. I've started doing it on my systems. /bin, /lib and /s

Re: [blfs-dev] anomaly in firefox section

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:07:42 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Be careful. There are a lot of packages that need libpng. At least > qt3, firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, and gimp have patches for libpng-1.5. > > Since it's only a point release, they are probably OK, but they should > be checked. I

Re: [lfs-dev] Patch naming

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:23:59 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Just a reminder that we did at one time adopt a patch naming convention: > > pkgname dash version dash short underscore descriptive underscore name > dash patchrev3.patch > > That is, the name should be: > > thunderbird-9.0.1-libpng_1.5-

Re: [lfs-dev] libnl and iproute2

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:15:19 +0100 Olaf wrote: > FWIW: libnl-3.2.3 proved quite an interesting 'change', I've needed to > tweak several packages (hostapd to name one) to deal with the move of > header files :-( Could you tell me how you built hostapd with libnl-3.2.3? I've just taken the easy

Re: [blfs-dev] anomaly in firefox section

2012-01-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:31:31 -0500 Walter Webb wrote: > The blfs book for 2012-01-03 (I also checked 2012-01-07) has a patch > for firefox-9.0.1. The compile failed with the patch, and succeeded > without the patch. In the patch itself it says: > Description: Fixes compiling firefox-9.0 wit

Re: [lfs-dev] util-=linux and coreutils arch

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:20:09 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I think the arch command is a bit more than uname -m. See > http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/arch/ That link is to the BSD man page. It may be a bit more than uname -m on BSD but for us the version we currently install doesn't accept any opt

[lfs-dev] util-=linux and coreutils arch

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, >From the trivial detail department; we configure util-linux with --enable-arch, however, on the man page for arch I see: DESCRIPTION arch is a deprecated command since util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m or use arch from the GNU coreutils package. Coreutils can install arch i

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS7.0

2011-12-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:56:39 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I think that idea is fine, but wonder about the use of awk. It may not > be available. The book requires awk. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the ab

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