Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: > I'll post any interesting progress reports as they occur. Yes, please do. Many thanks for the feedback, Dennis. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> No Sir. This is all on PowerPC. >> Please take this thread to lfs-support. > > Why ? > > I don't think this is a support issue at all. More of a "could LFS be more > generic and open to other architectures" sort of thing. Because it looks like

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: > >>> No Sir. This is all on PowerPC. > > Please take this thread to lfs-support. Why ? I don't think this is a support issue at all. More of a "could LFS be more generic and open to other architectures" sort of thing. Since leaping over to the JH-20080403 version I am do

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dennis Clarke wrote: >> No Sir. This is all on PowerPC. Please take this thread to lfs-support. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> to "successfully" compile the core LFS system are in the book. For the >> making of make bison and flex... I would imagine it could be done without > a >> version of make already installed but it would probably be a lot of work. >> I would guess it realy depends on how you start the job. Is thi

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-05 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 4:59 AM Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure ... > Well, according to this > (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree. > > I still don't think instructions should be special for this situation. > If you chose a host that doesn't provide the necessary developmen

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:03 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > > > -Original Message- >

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist > Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > > >&

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Joe
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > This comes up occasionally because users do not read section iv. > > "Your host system should have the following software with the minimum > versions indicated." > > and > > "To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run > the following:" > > Reread >

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:22 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure > Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from a

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:20 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure Loren Foret wrote: > More like linux from any distro. But I th

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Joe wrote: > Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a boo

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Loren Foret wrote: >> More like linux from any distro. > But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, > dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently > found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more > than a book", it may be

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Joe
Loren Foret wrote: > More like linux from any distro. But I think the point is that some distros now come with, for example, dash as the default shell linked to /bin/sh, or as the OP apparently found, mawk as the default AWK interpreter. If LFS is to become "more than a book", it may be worthwhi

RE: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Loren Foret
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Dubbs Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:58 PM To: LFS Developers Mailinglist Subject: Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure Dennis Clarke wrote: > What is Linux From "Scra

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dennis Clarke wrote: > What is Linux From "Scratch" all about? Linux From "Some Distro" ? No, it's Linux And Other Useful Programs From Source. If we wanted to get pedantic, we could start from an assembler and build a compiler and then the rest. The starting point is somewhat arbitrary and w

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> >> >> Then ple

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. > >> > >> Then please add gawk

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > You really need gawk, not mawk. >> >> Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate >> Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectiv

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:51 PM, J. Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > >> You really need gawk, not mawk. > >> > > > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLin

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > You really need gawk, not mawk. > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. The host requirements sp

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-04 Thread J. Greenlees
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> You really need gawk, not mawk. >> > > Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate > Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. and here I was thinking that a note that bison is required to be in

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > You really need gawk, not mawk. Then please add gawk and bison in Chapter 5 before binutils, to accomodate Debian-based LiveCDs and PCLinuxOS, respectively. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Huntwork > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed >> >> (bad class -- [], [^] or [) >> /[^ >> mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ] >> mawk: scripts/gen-sorte

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Both attempts seem to be failing in similar way. >> >> Not sure what direction to take here. >> >> Any thoughts ? > > Well the CFLAGS thing shouldn't be necessary on powerpc, so your second > approach was the better one. But then you hit this: > > 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorte

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed > > (bad class -- [], [^] or [) > /[^ > mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ] > mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line

Re: SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: > Both attempts seem to be failing in similar way. > > Not sure what direction to take here. > > Any thoughts ? Well the CFLAGS thing shouldn't be necessary on powerpc, so your second approach was the better one. But then you hit this: 'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 1

SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
n.b. : this is a ppc machine and config.guess reports powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu I am attempting to follow the book and ran into a problem at 5.6.1 "Installation of Glibc". I tried twice with two different apporaches and both fail in a similar way. First attempt : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/