zlib symlink from /usr

2005-08-01 Thread Ken Moffat
This is prompted by upgrading zlib to 1.2.3 (thanks to Matt for the heads up). Everything in my system using a shared libz is linked against libz.so.1 (good), but we persist in offering packages a symlink from /usr/lib/libz.so to /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 [ png bit me when I overlooked that in my sc

Re: zlib symlink from /usr

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is prompted by upgrading zlib to 1.2.3 (thanks to Matt for the > heads up). Everything in my system using a shared libz is linked > against libz.so.1 (good), but we persist in offering packages a symlink > from /usr/lib/libz.so to /usr/lib/l

Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Staub
1. At the end of the "Editors" section, there is a page for "Others Editors" - this should be "Other Editors." 2. For most packages it says to "Install [package] by running the following commands:" followed by "Now, as the root user:". It would be more accurate to say "Build [package] by runni

Re: Minor typo, and a couple other things

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > 1. At the end of the "Editors" section, there is a page for "Others > Editors" - this should be "Other Editors." Fixed. Thanks. > 2. For most packages it says to "Install [package] by running the > following commands:" followed by "Now, as the root user:". It would be > more

GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm just about finished building the GCC4 branch of LFS which is (I believe) trunk using GCC-4.0.1. Everyone is by now aware that there will be difficulties with some BLFS packages using GCC-4.x. I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm looking for ideas on how t

GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm just about finished building the GCC4 branch of LFS which is (I believe) trunk using GCC-4.0.1. Everyone is by now aware that there will be difficulties with some BLFS packages using GCC-4.x. I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm looking for ideas on how t

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/01/05 13:28 CST: > [snip] Sorry, wrong list -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 13:33:01 up 121 days, 13:06, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.44 --

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm > looking for ideas on how to go about making whatever changes might > be necessary to the package instructions available to the community. Randy, I built a GCC-4.0.0 system some time ago (and

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread M.Canales.es
El Lunes, 1 de Agosto de 2005 20:01, Randy McMurchy escribió: > > Manuel, could you start looking into the differences between the > 1.68.1 and recent version so we can think about updating BLFS. 1.69.0 is a beta version. Actually, all "dot cero" versions are beta, not intended to production use

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Richard A Downing
Repost 'cos I didn't see it was the wrong list either... Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm > looking for ideas on how to go about making whatever changes might > be necessary to the package instructions available to the communi

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One idea I have is to create a GCC4 branch of BLFS and as packages > are confirmed (or instructions updated to work) they are added into > this branch. The branch would essentially be empty of packages, with > the ones missing having instead a

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Richard A Downing wrote: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/ That link is also mentioned on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html, now that we mention the various branches of LFS. Cheers, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.l

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > >> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/ > > That link is also mentioned on > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html, now that we mention the > various branches of LFS. > > Cheers, > > Matt. I just can't keep up with you lot.

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 08/01/05 13:56 CST: > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/ Thanks Richard, I have already done quite a bit of research, along with visiting the link you mentioned. However, I think you misunderstood the purpose of my message. I'm not so much lo

Re: Typo in Docbook XSL Stylesheets section

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, M.Canales.es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1.69.0 is a beta version. Actually, all "dot cero" versions are beta, not > intended to production use, then not suitable to be added to BLFS. In two or > three weeks will be released 1.69.1. Damn, I have to downgrade. I wish maintainers wou

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: Based on my past experience with gcc upgrade, I plan to stay away from gcc-4.x till a 4.1 release :-) So a branch sounds good to me. Tushar, you're at least the second person I know of that's stated the same plan. However, 4.1.0 will more than likely be *less stable*

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: One idea I have is to create a GCC4 branch of BLFS and as packages are confirmed (or instructions updated to work) they are added into this branch. That sounds like a good plan to me. Whatever you guys decide to do, I'll ensure that our pointers to GCC-4 info inform fol

Chapter 5 Tcl minor nit

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Just a really, really minor nit from my notes: In the Chapter 5 Tcl instructions it wouldn't hurt to throw in a chmod -v 755 /tools/lib/libtcl8.4.so command at the end of the instructions. The reason being is that if you do the stripping at the end of Chapter 5 as the LFS user, this fil

BLFS 6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
OK, BLFS 6.1-pre1 is on line at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.1/ The tarball is at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/blfs-book-6.1-html.tar.bz2 The 6.1 patches and bootscripts are in place in the same directory. There won't be a pdf version of the -pre releases.

Re: BLFS 6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wrong list! -- Bruce Bruce Dubbs wrote: > OK, BLFS 6.1-pre1 is on line at: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.1/ > > The tarball is at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/blfs-book-6.1-html.tar.bz2 > > The 6.1 patches and bootscripts are in place in the same dir

Chapter 5 GCC nit

2005-08-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, A minor nit I noticed in the Chapter 5 GCC instructions (all versions): Noted in the SBU times between Pass 1 and Pass 2 is that they seem to be reversed. Pass 1 is shown to be 4.4 SBU and Pass 2 is 11.0. Shouldn't these be the other way around? My experience is that bootstrapping Pass 1

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Schafer
Randy McMurchy wrote: > I'm just about finished building the GCC4 branch of LFS which is > (I believe) trunk using GCC-4.0.1. Everyone is by now aware that > there will be difficulties with some BLFS packages using GCC-4.x. > > I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm >

BLFS-6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) Team is pleased to announce the release of BLFS 6.1 Prerelease 1. This book is the complement to Linux >From Scratch 6.1 and provides build and installation instructions for over 360 Open Source packages, including X Windows, KDE, and Gnome. The book can be fo

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/1/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/01/05 18:09 CST: > > > Sigh > > > > And here I was thinking that *everyone* knows who Emily Littela is. > > Misspelled her name. Emily Litella. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella > See

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GCC4 Build Issue

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Schafer
Hi Matt, as maintainer of the GCC4 branch you should be aware of an issue affecting the GCC4 build on x86. Some folks may consider this minor but I believe it is important. The issue arises as a side effect of the build method. To be precise, only GCC Pass1 is run as `make bootstrap'. The other 2