Re: Proposal for new (sub)branches: (BSFS - HPFS - LLHFS)

2006-04-12 Thread Joel Miller
Feldmeier Bernd wrote: > Hi All, > > As I followed this list a couple of month now, > I would like to make a proposal for the LFS branch. > 1) BSFS - Bootstrapping From Scratch sub-branch > 2) HPFS - Hotplugging From Scratch sub-branch > 3) LLHFS - Linux Libc Header From Scratch sub-branch I'll

Re: Question about X-Org GCC.4 in regards to upgrading from LFS 6.1

2006-03-28 Thread Joel Miller
Dan Winkler wrote: > Hello All I have a quick question. > > I have completed LFS 6.1 and would like to get Xorg installed This question is best asked to blfs-dev or blfs-support. The lfs-dev list is for development of the base LFS book only. -- Registered LFS User 6929 Registered Linux User 29

Re: error texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tgoto'

2006-03-20 Thread Joel Miller
Matthew Burgess wrote: > And please trim your quotes! Nearly ~40 lines of quoted email to add a > 6-word sentence is ridiculous. My apologies to the list. I had just sent off a bunch of emails rapid fire and the previous one in this thread being the last one, I guess I wasn't paying too close at

Re: error texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tgoto'

2006-03-20 Thread Joel Miller
Andrejs Spunitis wrote: > /**/For automation LFS, I've writtten the script > accordnig to instruction from chapter 5 that: > http://www.dzti.edu.lv/isp-serv/a7/lfs-toolkit.txt > > For building I use LiveCD: > http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.2-pre3.iso > > I've mounted /dev/

Re: [DIY BUG] bash wants en_US locale

2006-02-09 Thread Joel Miller
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: And to further clarify, an LFS machine as it currently is does *not* automatically use UTF-8. The changes to the LFS book are so that the LFS system *can* use UTF-8 properly if a user requires it. IMO, this is I'd like some clarification on one point then. IIRC, I read

Re: UTF8 nitpicks

2006-01-09 Thread Joel Miller
Randy McMurchy wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 01/09/06 12:19 CST: * Mention that folks can choose gdbm instead of berkeley db with a pointer to BLFS's gdbm page. The arpd daemon is already back in LFS. Dumping BDB means that the IPRoute package installation would break. Add

Re: 2.6.15 Hotplugging/Coldplugging via udev

2006-01-05 Thread Joel Miller (RIT Student)
Jim Gifford wrote: > I get tired of people saying I'm keeping everything secret of what I'm > doing. I brought what I found to the masses now that it works properly, > and now I'm getting harassed for it. Do I really deserve this treatment, > I don't think so. I'm tired of this crap, especially

RE: 2.6.15 Hotplugging/Coldplugging via udev

2006-01-05 Thread Joel Miller (RIT Student)
Jim Gifford wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > >> On 1/5/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> why would LFS consider doing a bunch of patching and such when it is >>> just a guess if this is what is going to be coming down the pipe in >>> just a couple of weeks with these new

RE: devel book, gcc 4.0.2 2nd pass fail

2005-12-21 Thread Joel Miller (RIT Student)
Wade Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/lfs/tools $ readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools' > [Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] > have been following devel book verbatim, except using --disable-multilib > for 1st & 2nd pass gcc compiles > > host system is: >

Re: news for newbies?

2005-05-03 Thread Joel Miller
Tony Morgan wrote: As y'all know, I'm new here... well, mostly new. Well then allow me to welcome you to the community. Was wondering if someone could fill me in on this... What's the deal with cross-lfs? Ok, I know it's a book (or, really, a set of books) for people compiling LFS on a system othe

Re: Ready for gcc-4 & cleaning up binutils source delete or not.

2005-04-16 Thread Joel Miller
TheOldFellow wrote: A bit of a disclaimer before I try to pick apart this script a little. All internal politics discussions aside, I greatly respect Greg's technical prowess, and my trying to make changes to a script by some one who knows a lot more than me will probably break things. That sai

Re: Wording for configuring perl in ch6

2005-04-01 Thread Joel Miller
Matthew Burgess wrote: Joel Miller wrote: We wouldn't have done exercises with them if it wasn't acceptable to use them. So are you telling me that all those Visual Basic exercises I did means it's actually acceptable to use in the real world? :) toucher -- Registered LFS User

Re: Wording for configuring perl in ch6

2005-04-01 Thread Joel Miller
Andrew Benton wrote: I agree, but people tell me it's wrong to start sentences with "however" and "but" because they're linking words It's a perfectly legal sentence. In school, we used to call sentences that started like this "spoilers." I don't remember school a lot, but I do remember working

Re: Bootscripts SheBang

2005-03-30 Thread Joel Miller
Matthias Berndt wrote: Greetings! Wouldn't it make sense to change the SheBang in the bootscripts from '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' because the scripts are not bourne shell compatible? I'm asking because I changed /bin/sh from /bin/bash to /bin/zsh and made a disaster. Please tell us the kind of er

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-12 Thread Joel Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: There was also to be a hold on udev util that was worked out also. Frankly, that's silly. There's no need to put a hold on upgrading udev until the new /etc/group is pushed out. Package upgrades should keep pressing forward. When the time comes that the new groups file is added

Re: Binutils failure in Chapter 5

2005-03-10 Thread Joel Miller
Randy McMurchy wrote: It's my opinion that the current SVN (20050303) is rock solid and worthy of a release. I have a couple systems running it, without problems or issues that I've seen. Additionally, Anduin is running on a very similar platform (just a few packages are not up to the current revs

OT Re: Livecd Versioning

2005-02-19 Thread Joel Miller
Thomas Trepl wrote: I personally build my boot-cd with something like -march=i686 -mtune=i686 just FYI, -march implies -mtune. using both is redundant. -- Registered LFS User 6929 Registered Linux User 298182 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch