Re: [lfs-dev] Project contributor names

2014-03-05 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 05/03/2014 03:16, Armin K. wrote: > On 03/05/2014 01:58 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> oh didn't know that LFS planned to migrate to git :( I hope the mail on >> lfs-book will be as usable as they are with svn, because it the easiest >> way to follow the updates to translate efficiently. I

Re: [lfs-dev] Are we ready for LFS-7.5?

2014-03-02 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/03/2014 22:00, akhiezer wrote: >> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:36:34 -0600 >> From: Bruce Dubbs >> To: LFS Developers Mailinglist >> Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] Are we ready for LFS-7.5? >> >> After a fairly extensive discussion, I've update the host system >> requirements page in svn: >> >> http:

Re: [lfs-dev] Chapter 6 - Glibc Tests

2014-02-21 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
Morning [finally someone in same time zone] as this has been answered im adding a bit of info re "make -k switch" using -k as a switch to make will continue on failure and not die immediately. the target will fail overall as seen "not remade ." using -j and -k together is a good way to

[lfs-dev] LFS Target Architectures

2014-02-18 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
Ok actually reading the book again in "iii. LFS Target Architectures" You welcome to add ARMv7l to the list same rules apply as PPC infact ARM is "easier" and mostly out the box. a disclaimer is that i build it mostly cross with qemu-user running it this way on a i7x8 is faster than a exyno

Re: [lfs-dev] Chapter 5 stripping

2014-02-17 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 17/02/2014 23:39, Armin K. wrote: > During chapter 5 strip procedure, I've noticed the following: > > strip: unable to copy file '/tools/bin/strip'; reason: Text file busy > > That's because it's being used and it can't be stripped. One of the > solutions could be to call /usr/bin/strip instead

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest tests

2014-02-15 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/15/14 10:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > These automake tests pass if the static library is present and the .so > files are missing. `nm libfl.so.2.0.0` gives: > > U yylex > > U means undefined. The linker crashes on that. I'll revert the change > to flex that creates the dynamic libraries.

Re: [lfs-dev] Looking for volunteers

2014-02-03 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
|bzr branch http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/devel/fhs-spec| <- this is the ticket Here is a cooked pdf from the bzr repository for those intrested. ftp://101oxford.smartdns.co.za/fhs.pdf (.txt is avail too) built from rev 51 Fri 2012-01-20 16:42:31 -0500 ftp://101oxford.smartdns.co.za/fhs_l

[lfs-dev] Texlive (BLFS)

2014-02-03 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/pst/texlive.html The texlive chapter needs some love WRT building from source and requires building asymptote seperately either in tree or standalone. i would suggest that the --enable-shared option become recommended as opposed to optional besi