Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Well, actually it is the doxywizard program which doesn't compile. Are you saying it compiles for you, using current LFS book instructions? Oh, I see. Doxywizard requires Qt which I don't have installed so I wasn't aware of the problem. Doxygen compiles fine for me like so t

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: Well, actually it is the doxywizard program which doesn't compile. Are you saying it compiles for you, using current LFS book instructions? I've just tested it here and it's working for me. I'm as baffled as I've no doubt you will be Randy! That said, I've now got a 157K p

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 05/16/05 14:45 CST: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >>Maybe it would be prudent to >>roll back to 2.5.4a? At least that one manages to get doxygen to >>compile successfully! > > Doxygen compiles fine for me. The problem compiling doxygen is introduced by > the >

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Matthew Burgess wrote: Maybe it would be prudent to roll back to 2.5.4a? At least that one manages to get doxygen to compile successfully! Doxygen compiles fine for me. The problem compiling doxygen is introduced by the patch LFS applies to flex-2.5.31 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/li

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-16 Thread Jim Gifford
I have been testing, we can safely remove flex from the LFS system if we use FSF. There are two false dependencies listed in the book, on for kbd and the other module init tools, they do not require flex. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Ryan . Oliver
Matthew Burgess wrote: >Folks, > >I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my >reasons: > >1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex >2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose > >and fix >3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Jeremy Utley
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:42 CST: Matthew Burgess wrote: As for flex, it looks like the maintainers went AWOL again :( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and 11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be p

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:42 CST: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >>As for flex, it looks >>like the maintainers went AWOL again :( >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and >>11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be prudent to >>roll bac

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > As for flex, it looks > like the maintainers went AWOL again :( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and > 11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be prudent to > roll back to 2.5.4a? At least that one manages to get doxygen

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Does this imply that LFS will drop bison and flex? From chapter 5, certainly. If so, they will need to be added to BLFS. I would hope that they would be retained in Chapter 6 as they are a part of an overall development base. Well, I really don't mind keeping bison around. As

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Folks, > > I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: > > 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex Does this imply that LFS will drop bison and flex? If so, they will need to be added to BLFS. I would hope that they would be retained

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > So, does anyone think we should still stick with HJL binutils, and if > so, what are the compelling reasons for doing so? > I will be less than surprised if the multi-architecture book has to use HJL for some architectures, in the past HJL has alwa

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Jeremy Utley
Matthew Burgess wrote: Folks, I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex 2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose and fix 3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to speed with mode

Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Folks, I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex 2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose and fix 3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to speed with modern features we were rel