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

2006-03-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/28/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > would I or Should I upgrade my GCC from the 3.x series before trying this? Not unless you want to. > if so can i follow the BLFS dev book on doing that upgrade with no issues? Yes. The main difference you'd notice in compiling software is t

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

2006-03-28 Thread Dan Winkler
Whoops thought i sent it to BLFS-dev my apologies From: Joel Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LFS Developers Mailinglist To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: Question about X-Org GCC.4 in regards to upgrading from LFS 6.1 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:21:26 -0500 Dan Winkler

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 L

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

2006-03-28 Thread Dan Winkler
Hello All I have a quick question. I have completed LFS 6.1 and would like to get Xorg installed The BLFSdev book is tracking the use of gcc-4 and states most the instruction are best done with that compiler installed and working correct? the reason I ask is because I wish to install X.org7

Re: LFS 6.1 and 6.1.1, chapter 3: man-pages-2.01 download location

2005-12-01 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Nico R. wrote: I suggest finding a mirror which still has version 2.01 of man-pages and including the correct URIs in the LFS 6.1 and 6.1.1 errata. LFS has its own package mirrors. On it are the packages for LFS version 6.0 to Development. There is no sense in adding download locations to

LFS 6.1 and 6.1.1, chapter 3: man-pages-2.01 download location

2005-12-01 Thread Nico R.
m this location. LFS 6.1 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1/chapter03/packages.html> has the same problem. I suggest finding a mirror which still has version 2.01 of man-pages and including the correct URIs in the LFS 6.1 and 6.1.1 errata. Thanks, - -- Nico -BEGIN PGP

Re: Italian translation of LFS 6.1

2005-10-17 Thread Justin Knierim
Giulio Daprelà wrote: Hi all I am pleased to announce that the italian translation of LFS 6.1 is available at: http://it.tldp.org/lfs/lfs/ Added the the website. Thanks. Justin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe

Italian translation of LFS 6.1

2005-10-17 Thread Giulio Daprelà
Hi all I am pleased to announce that the italian translation of LFS 6.1 is available at: http://it.tldp.org/lfs/lfs/ Giulio Daprelà - Linux user #356310 LFS user #11031 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Justin Knierim
Matthew Burgess wrote: LFS obviously can't be fixed in situ, so an errata will be published. nALFS would then implement the fix(es) specified by all the errata that apply to LFS-6.1, and the LiveCD would pick up the fixed nALFS profiles and also itself be built with the fixes mention

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
Matthew Burgess wrote: Sorry for not being explicit enough. Basically, as you've already eluded to, LFS-6.1, the nALFS profiles that are based on it, and the LiveCD that is dependent on both LFS and nALFS all need to be fixed. LFS-6.1 obviously can't be fixed in situ, so an erra

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
the user for building LFS would still be broken. Sorry for not being explicit enough. Basically, as you've already eluded to, LFS-6.1, the nALFS profiles that are based on it, and the LiveCD that is dependent on both LFS and nALFS all need to be fixed. LFS-6.1 obviously can't be fix

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: As for the Right Thing To Do for the livecd, I think that the general rule should be to follow the book wherever possible, but deal with any and all errata as they become known. Otherwise, we're effectively giving folks a known broken/insecure install by default. So,

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Steve Prior wrote: I'd rather not have the different LFS subprojects all pointing fingers at each other saying that it should get fixed there first I don't think anyone's pointing fingers. However, it should be noted that this bug is already fixed in the development version of LFS (i.e. wha

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Steve Prior wrote: Yes, my point exactly. If the bug is in LFS then *that* should be fixed and released, and in turn, the LiveCD can follow suit. Thanks for the detailed reply, Steve. -- JH My concern at the moment is a practical one. I have a machine I really want

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Steve Prior wrote: I don't disagree with that philosophy JH. What I think should be the issue now is to determine how serious this GLIBC issue really is. If it is a serious security issue and therefore makes "LFS 6.1 stable" a defective release (don't mean this as bad

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
to determine how serious this GLIBC issue really is. If it is a serious security issue and therefore makes "LFS 6.1 stable" a defective release (don't mean this as bad work against the LFS group, just that a bad apple got into the pile), then I think it might be time for LFS

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Tough question. The problem while Jeremy Huntwork was the project leader was that exactly the same versions of packages had to be used in the book and on the LiveCD (with the exception of ncurses because of "xterm -lc" compatibility needed for i18n purposes). I'd ra

glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile (was: Help for building LiveCD)

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Steve Prior wrote: Alexander - any chance of an upcoming revision of the LFS-6.1 Live CD which uses glibc 2.3.5 to resolve the ssh privsep issue? (aka http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534, it's a good candidate for the LFS errata page.) Tough question. The pr

Re: Retrofitting LFS 6.1?

2005-09-22 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:33:56PM -0600, Allen J. Newton wrote: > > Quick question: How much work would be involved in retrofitting an LFS 6.1 > system to hardening to HLFS specs (as opposed to doing the complete rebuild > procedure documented in the book)? You are pretty much goin

Re: LFS 6.1, printed german book

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Reitelbach
On Friday 26 August 2005 17:56, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It rasies the issue of what to do with the income. Gerard is the > copyright holder and he has spent a significant amount of personal funds > on the project. This is true. I also have costs regarding lfs (at least for the german translation)

Re: LFS 6.1, printed german book

2005-08-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > Hello people, > > some of you might remember me, i'm the german translator of the book since > some time now. > > A few weeks ago at Linuxtag in germany i met a publisher who is very > interested in publishing my german translation of 6.1 as printed book here in > ge

LFS 6.1, printed german book

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Reitelbach
Hello people, some of you might remember me, i'm the german translator of the book since some time now. A few weeks ago at Linuxtag in germany i met a publisher who is very interested in publishing my german translation of 6.1 as printed book here in germany. I mailed Gerard two times about t

Re: Errors in LFS-6.1

2005-07-21 Thread Archaic
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:35:27AM +1000, Jath Palasubramaniam wrote: > > > ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /lib > > At this point the user is in the directory '/sources/gcc-build/'. A > single '..' only places you in the 'sources/' directory. I believe the > command should be either: Look at the note on

Re: Errors in LFS-6.1

2005-07-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jath Palasubramaniam wrote these words on 07/21/05 18:35 CST: > I think there is an error in the second-last instruction. It says: > > > Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the /lib > directory. To support those packages, create this symlink: > > ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /li

Errors in LFS-6.1

2005-07-21 Thread Jath Palasubramaniam
Hi, Sorry, if this is the wrong place for posting a couple of errors i've found in the LFS-6.1 book. Anyway... __ Chapter 6.14 GCC-3.4.3 I think there is an error in the second-last instruction. It says: > Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the /lib direc

Re: LFS 6.1

2005-07-11 Thread William Harrington
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:20:46 -0700, GN wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:18, Archaic wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:03:05AM +0200, Feldmeier Bernd wrote: >> > This would be a good step for final 6.1 >> >> No it would be a terrible step. One week isn't possibly long enough to >> test such

Re: Problems building LFS-6.1

2005-07-11 Thread William Harrington
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:00:52 +0200, lfs-user wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to build a new LFS using the newly released profile for 6.1, > and have some problems. My host is LFS-6.0, upgraded to 2.6.12.2 kernel. > > When building glibc, it fails make check in both chapter 5 and 6, and the > problem

Re: Problems building LFS-6.1

2005-07-11 Thread lfs-user
lfs-user wrote: Hi I'm trying to build a new LFS using the newly released profile for 6.1, and have some problems. My host is LFS-6.0, upgraded to 2.6.12.2 kernel. When building glibc, it fails make check in both chapter 5 and 6, and the problem is tst-clock2: -su-3.00# more /mnt/lfs/to

Problems building LFS-6.1

2005-07-11 Thread lfs-user
Hi I'm trying to build a new LFS using the newly released profile for 6.1, and have some problems. My host is LFS-6.0, upgraded to 2.6.12.2 kernel. When building glibc, it fails make check in both chapter 5 and 6, and the problem is tst-clock2: -su-3.00# more /mnt/lfs/tools/build/glibc-bui

Re: LFS 6.1

2005-07-11 Thread GN
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:18, Archaic wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:03:05AM +0200, Feldmeier Bernd wrote: > > This would be a good step for final 6.1 > > No it would be a terrible step. One week isn't possibly long enough > to test such drastic changes. We are trying to produce a "stable"

Re: LFS-6.1 - svn and security issues

2005-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I pulled a fresh copy of LFS from SVN: >> >> svn co svn://linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/ > Right, you want the *tagged* version, not the branch. OK. I've got it now. > Err, that'd be the one *already fixed* for the 6.1-pre2 release I

Re: [Fwd: LFS-6.1 - svn and security issues]

2005-07-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wrong list. Sorry. Well, yes, but we'd already responded to you several times on the wrong list, saying that your fears were unfounded. Do you want us to forward our 4 or 5 replies on to this list too? Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: h

[Fwd: LFS-6.1 - svn and security issues]

2005-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wrong list. Sorry. Original Message Subject: LFS-6.1 - svn and security issues Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:18:31 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BLFS Support List References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Burgess wrote: > The Linux From Scrat

Re: LFS-6.1 released

2005-07-10 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:55:38PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Congratulations guys on the release. Good work as usual. :) Thanks! -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxf

Re: LFS-6.1 released

2005-07-09 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Congratulations guys on the release. Good work as usual. :) -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS-6.1 released

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades (including Linux-2.6.11.12, GCC-3.4.3 and Glibc-2.3.4) and security fixes (including the recently disclosed zlib vulnerability). It also includes a large

Re: LFS 6.1

2005-07-06 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:03:05AM +0200, Feldmeier Bernd wrote: > > This would be a good step for final 6.1 No it would be a terrible step. One week isn't possibly long enough to test such drastic changes. We are trying to produce a "stable" book and while those updates you mentioned may produce

LFS 6.1

2005-07-06 Thread Feldmeier Bernd
Hi guys, good work so far .. Well I think you should wait one more week and include the latest kernel 2.6.12 and headers available now. Also you may include binutils 2.16.1 as it is already in svn and gcc 3.4.4 This would be a good step for final 6.1 cYa Bernd Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Bes

LFS-6.1-pre2 released

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1-pre2. This pre-release for the upcoming final 6.1 revision of the book includes a patch to fix a recently disclosed security bug in zlib. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1

Re: LFS 6.1 GCC Testsuite results link

2005-07-03 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > The GCC-Pass 2 page still has a link to an old version's (3.4.1) > testsuite results - this should be changed to Good eye! Thanks! -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Sc

LFS 6.1 GCC Testsuite results link

2005-07-03 Thread Chris Staub
The GCC-Pass 2 page still has a link to an old version's (3.4.1) testsuite results - this should be changed to http://linuxfromscratch.org/~archaic/logs-6.1-pre1/chapter6/gcc-3.4.3 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

LFS-6.1-pre1 released

2005-07-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1-pre1. This pre-release for the upcoming final 6.1 revision of the book includes a large number of package upgrades and security fixes. It also includes a fair amount of editorial work on the explantory material

Re: LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: I'll be doing a 6.1 pre-release tomorrow night (~19:00-20:00 UTC). Well, the astute amongst you will have noticed this never happened! Archaic and I are busy doing a final review of the text. This should be all done by tomorrow night...honest! Given that slippage, I'

Re: LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: Those are contradictory. 1586 required command changes. Of course it did. I was just testing you :) Errm, what can I say? Whoops :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-27 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 06:53:43PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > There are two bugs remaining to be fixed (1582 and 1586) which are > simply textual changes. > Editors, I think it goes without saying, strictly no package upgrades or > command changes now please. Those are contradictory. 15

Re: LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-27 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Matthew Burgess wrote: Justin, could you spin final package tarballs based on what's currently listed in chapter 3 of the testing branch please? Hi Matt, Sure, just double-checked all the versions and patches. A tarball and md5sums has been generated and should be synced on all servers by t

Re: LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-27 Thread M.Canales.es
El Lunes, 27 de Junio de 2005 19:53, Matthew Burgess escribió: > Hi folks, > > After a very long delay [1] it looks as if we really are nearly there. > There are two bugs remaining to be fixed (1582 and 1586) which are > simply textual changes. I'll be doing a 6.1 pre-release tomorrow night > (~19

LFS 6.1 schedule

2005-06-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, After a very long delay [1] it looks as if we really are nearly there. There are two bugs remaining to be fixed (1582 and 1586) which are simply textual changes. I'll be doing a 6.1 pre-release tomorrow night (~19:00-20:00 UTC). I'd like to get 6.1 out this weekend, though I reali

Updated console scripts for LFS 6.1 and 7.0

2005-06-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, Pasha Zubkov found that the font isn't being correctly set on framebuffer consoles. This bug also affects LFS-6.1-testing. I have attached fixed console scripts for LFS-6.1 and 7.0 (the difference is that in the 6.1 script all UTF-8-related stuff is omitted). Now these scripts

Re: LFS 6.1 Release?

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: I don't see any development or discussion about 6.1 anymore on the lists, so what is blocking the release? Maybe there is a good reason, so i thought i could simply ask... ;-) Well, whether it's good or not I don't know but I'll give you the reason anyway. Basicall

LFS 6.1 Release?

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Reitelbach
Hello people, i'm just curious. My german translation of the book is finished since a long time and no strings have been changed for weeks (months?) now. So i wonder, when we can expect a 6.1 release? I don't see any development or discussion about 6.1 anymore on the lists, so what is blocking

Re: LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I suppose that would be fine, though I still would like to see a brief summary about it. Oh, and by summary, I really just mean the purpose of the cd - what it does and why it exists. Just to give the users a reason for coming to look at the cd and its independant page in

Re: LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Is it possible to simply point interested folks to a web page that can be updated independently of the book? Since you're obviously up and around, I'll make a reply now ;) I suppose that would be fine, though I still would like to see a brief summary about it. Perhaps it d

Re: LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hey Guys, Would just like to ask if the target date for the release of 6.1 has changed at all. I think it will have to, given the occasional problems people are seeing with the localnet bootscript, and the fact that I've a fairly lengthy TODO list still to get through. I'

LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-15 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hey Guys, Would just like to ask if the target date for the release of 6.1 has changed at all. I'm trying to finalize a release version of the latest cd which will use 6.1 as a base and include its book and source packages, etc. Would be useful to know what kind of a time frame we're looking

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:23:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > ERASECHAR 010 Mine is 0177. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: My typo. My fault. Sorry for all the effort. :(( I enjoyed it. I learned some stuff from this thread. And it's nice to see I'm not the only one that makes silly mistakes. ;) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfroms

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Everyting works fine. Checking an older configuration, I have ERASECHAR 0177 Mine's 0177 here. Is it maybe worth comparing config.log's offline? King's X. All stop. My fault! In my script I have: sed -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes@' \

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Mine's 0177 here. Is it maybe worth comparing config.log's offline? Matt. Likewise. -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Everyting works fine. Checking an older configuration, I have ERASECHAR 0177 Mine's 0177 here. Is it maybe worth comparing config.log's offline? Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the ab

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I think I found the problem. In shadow-4.0.7, the file login.defs has: # Login configuration initializations: # # ERASECHAR Terminal ERASE character ('\010' = backspace). # KILLCHARTerminal KILL character ('\025' = CTRL/U). # UMASK Default "umask" value. #

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: When I compiled the kernel, I turned off Legacy (BSD) PTY support. I'll build another kernel and add that back and see if that makes a difference. I don't think it will -- I have it off here too. But it'd be worth a shot. As you suspected, it did not make

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> None of your boot scripts (or your login scripts) set stty erase >> ^H, correct? You never know... > > Not unless it's done in the lfs-bootscripts. I don't believe it is, because my 6.1 system (using the lfs-bootscripts) doesn't do it. > When I comp

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:53:26PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > The RH system has a 2.4 based kernel. No. Never tried to build from that. It might be worth a shot. Hopefully a 2.6 kernel is all you need to satisfy the chap5 toolchain reqs. We need to determine where this problem lies. -- Arc

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:49:52PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: You have said you built 6.1-pre1 more than once and keep getting this error. Each time you built, did you use the live CD or have you tried building the system from the Redhat that it came with? The RH system has a 2.4 ba

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:49:52PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by "same host." The host is the system that is running while you are building. You have said you built 6.1-pre1 more than once and keep getting this error. Each time you built, did you use the live CD or h

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: None of your boot scripts (or your login scripts) set stty erase ^H, correct? You never know... Not unless it's done in the lfs-bootscripts. stty seems to pull those settings in from a tcgetattr() call. The "struct termios" that that call fills in, has the ^H character code s

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:50:03AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > In any case, we are getting closer. I did follow the book precisely and > took the option of not changing anything in the console configuration. > This worked in the past. It would certainly be easy enough to throw in > a "stty san

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 1) is there any difference in the output of "stty -a" on the livecd and or your system? Post both. 2) does a "stty erase ^?" or "stty sane" fix your problem? If it does, please find out why this is not the default on your system. Interesting. On my new system: #stty

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> As an interesting note, from vim, do a :help Linux-backspace >> That is exactly what I am running into. Opinions differ on this subject. Since "Linus Torvalds and Debian policy authors" and "Vim authors" cannot be both right, an editor's chioce

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: As an interesting note, from vim, do a :help Linux-backspace That is exactly what I am running into. Do you have a /etc/sysconfig/console file? Or did you leave it alone? I left it alone. Evey line is commented out. Guess I'm wondering if you have a keyma

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: As an interesting note, from vim, do a :help Linux-backspace That is exactly what I am running into. Do you have a /etc/sysconfig/console file? Or did you leave it alone? Guess I'm wondering if you have a keymap that needs fixing as is mentioned here: http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:29:31AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Have you rebuilt the entire system? Yes. So this error is reproducible with a full build? Were you using the same host? I'm not sure what you mean by "same host." I bought a new system with RH on it. After a session wi

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:29:31AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > >Have you rebuilt the entire system? > > Yes. So this error is reproducible with a full build? Were you using the same host? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scrat

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: Have you rebuilt the entire system? Yes. Perhaps compare termcap files? Um, I thought this was compiled now. What file did you mean? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:17:50PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > No, I gave up. I have a woraround in /etc/vimrc: Have you rebuilt the entire system? Perhaps compare termcap files? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would really like to find the problem and fix it however. Bruce, Did you ever get this sorted out? Just curious. No, I gave up. I have a woraround in /etc/vimrc: if &term == "linux" set t_kb= endif Where the value after the t_kb= is a literal delete

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would really like to find the problem and fix it however. Bruce, Did you ever get this sorted out? Just curious. -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Sorry. I should have specified. I get ^? printed on the screen in insert mode or in :ex mode. No characters are erased. A Ctrl-h works properly as a backspace should. I cannot reproduce this on any of the builds I've d

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-08 Thread Archaic
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Sorry. I should have specified. I get ^? printed on the screen in > insert mode or in :ex mode. No characters are erased. > A Ctrl-h works properly as a backspace should. I cannot reproduce this on any of the builds I've done s

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: The backspace key is not working correctly in vim. I can fix the problem with echo "keycode 14 = BackSpace" | loadkeys but that doesn't seem right to me. It just isn't right, it will also break Emacs. I cannot reproduce this here, but my LFS is ra

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The backspace key is not working correctly in vim. > I can fix the problem with >echo "keycode 14 = BackSpace" | loadkeys > > but that doesn't seem right to me. It just isn't right, it will also break Emacs. I cannot reproduce this here, but my LFS is rather old. Could

LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've just finished building lfs-testing SVN-20050402 from the 6.0 boot cd. Most things went fine and I have timing/size data that I will put together and post after bit. Right now the system is a plain LFS system with the only addition being ssl/ssh. I have run into a keyboard problem that I'd

Re: LFS-6.1-testing binutils failure

2005-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Does the boot CD's /usr/include/errno.h #include ? At first I thought it doesn't, but it is OK. I ended up rebooting the CD and checking everything and now it works. I really don't know what was going on, but I'm continuing with the testing build. Thansks for the feedback

Re: LFS-6.1-testing binutils failure

2005-04-04 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTRAD_CORE -I. -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd/../include -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd/../intl -I../intl -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes

LFS-6.1-testing binutils failure

2005-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I am trying to build a test system from the LFS6 boot cd. In chapter 5, I can't even get through the 1st binutils: /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTRAD_CORE -I. -I../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/bfd -I../../binutils