Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Oksman wrote: > I was curious about these compiler warnings so I decided to look into > it a bit further through various logs. At a glance it looks as though > the issue is that gmp, mpfr and mpc are all using hardwired paths to > /usr/bin/file or /bin/

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jonathan Oksman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> The old way worked OK, but just issued some warnings. Â Remember that the >> builds in Chapter 6 *are* using the new gcc and binutils that you built >> in Chapter 5. >> > > This is true. The difference appears to be

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Oksman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The old way worked OK, but just issued some warnings.  Remember that the > builds in Chapter 6 *are* using the new gcc and binutils that you built > in Chapter 5. > This is true. The difference appears to be about 20 bytes on the file binary

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jonathan Oksman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> There are multiple ways of solving a problem. What new problem does >> your suggestion solve? > I suppose my arguments are a matter of opinion though. I'm in the > process of a test build with this suggested rearran

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Oksman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > There are multiple ways of solving a problem.  What new problem does > your suggestion solve? > >   -- Bruce Well most of it is just a personal intent of building as many binaries as possible with the new (and fully tested) gcc. Since file

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jonathan Oksman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Changelog, 2011-04-18. >> >> Â -- Bruce > > Thanks for the reference Bruce, I completely missed it. > > > From the changelog then: >> [bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before binutils to prevent some >> config

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Oksman
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Changelog, 2011-04-18. > >   -- Bruce Thanks for the reference Bruce, I completely missed it. From the changelog then: > [bdubbs] - In Chapter 6, move File to before binutils to prevent some > configure warnings. I was curious about these

Re: Question about chapter 6: file before gcc

2011-10-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jonathan Oksman wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was just wondering if there was a special reason as to why file gets > built before gcc now in 7.0. I tried to do a search to see if it was > discussed but I could not turn up anything. Changelog, 2011-04-18. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m