Re: Chapter 6 Texinfo - what is "TeX"?

2005-08-13 Thread Doug Ronne
On 8/12/05, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The installation instructions for Texinfo give an "optional" step for a > "TeX" installation, but it doesn't say why you would need it or what > programs might require it. Some kind of additional description should be > there (even if it's nothin

Re: Chapter 6 Texinfo - what is "TeX"?

2005-08-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/12/05 23:20 CST: > The installation instructions for Texinfo give an "optional" step for a > "TeX" installation, but it doesn't say why you would need it or what > programs might require it. Some kind of additional description should be > there (even if it's n

Re: Chapter 6 Texinfo - what is "TeX"?

2005-08-13 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/13/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/12/05 23:20 CST: > > The installation instructions for Texinfo give an "optional" step for a > > "TeX" installation, but it doesn't say why you would need it or what > > programs might require it. Some kind

Re: LibXML2 trouble

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/13/05 10:23 CST: It seems that /usr/include/glob.h does not contain the string rk_glob andy:~$ grep rk_glob /mnt/lfs/usr/include/glob.h andy:~$ Wait a minute. I'm afraid I don't understand why you are grepping in /mnt/lfs. I was und

Re: Cross-LFS 5.9. Glibc-2.3.5 (32 bit build on a 32 bit host)

2005-08-13 Thread Jim Gifford
Doug, Think I found the issue, check your gcc-static build and see if you passed --enable-languages=c,c++ it should only be c. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://w

Re: LibXML2 trouble

2005-08-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/13/05 12:17 CST: > It's not finished, I'm still only halfway through Gnome so I keep rebooting > the google for patches. It was easier to run the grep from the host > (gcc-3.4.4) system. That makes sense. Andrew, thanks for your help earlier. I figured out

Re: Openldap dependencies

2005-08-13 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/12/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, we shole stay with the "release that has demonstrated itself as > being reliable in real world environments." > > 2.2.6. > Minor typo, that's 2.2.26. Another question, what is the version name that is used. For stable releases, instead o

Re: Openldap dependencies

2005-08-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/13/05 15:04 CST: > Another question, what is the version name that is used. For stable > releases, instead of using naming it 2.2.26, they use stable-20050429. > IMO we should use their terminology. Two reasons: > (1) We are not at odds with the versioning

Re: Openldap dependencies

2005-08-13 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/13/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if you saw my previous post about the --enable-dynamic > parameter. Any thoughts? > I use --enable-dynamic in my builds too. I think it is only used for the slapd backends. i.e. whether to link them in dynamic or static. I am run

Re: Openldap dependencies

2005-08-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/13/05 15:28 CST: > I use --enable-dynamic in my builds too. I think it is only used for > the slapd backends. i.e. whether to link them in dynamic or static. I > am running a build without the dynamic. Lets see what the difference > is. My understanding (f

Re: Cross-LFS 5.9. Glibc-2.3.5 (32 bit build on a 32 bit host)

2005-08-13 Thread Doug Ronne
On 8/13/05, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > Think I found the issue, check your gcc-static build and see if you > passed --enable-languages=c,c++ it should only be c. Not unless it was in the book (I was cutting and pasting). However, this latest time through I didn't run in

Re: Chapter 6 Texinfo - what is "TeX"?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: The installation instructions for Texinfo give an "optional" step for a "TeX" installation, but it doesn't say why you would need it or what programs might require it. Some kind of additional description should be there (even if it's nothing more than "if you don't know what

Re: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-13 Thread Nathan Coulson
On 8/11/05, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Archaic wrote: > > > >> That just seems silly. Warn was much nicer and still allowed things to > >> proceed. > > > > > > Can we not still warn, but just leave the exit status as '0'. The spec > > (from the quote given) do

Re: Cross-LFS 5.9. Glibc-2.3.5 (32 bit build on a 32 bit host)

2005-08-13 Thread Jim Gifford
Actually I found two causes for that error during my testing. 1 - --enable-languages=c,c++ will cause that error, don't understand why though 2 - When LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET32 are the same. (Verified thanx to Matt Darcy) I will be adding a third option to the variables page to correct the se

Proposal: proactive search for autofoo bugs

2005-08-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, Bugs when a packahe uses some HAVE_XXX macro in its source and the ./configura script doesn't sefine that in config.h are pretty common nowadays: http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2005-June/010153.html http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-July

Re: Openldap dependencies

2005-08-13 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/13/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll be interested in what you find out doing the build you are doing > right now. > The option --enable-dynamic passes the option -static to libtool when linking. This makes the executables installed by openldap link statically against

Re: Proposal: proactive search for autofoo bugs

2005-08-13 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: When adding a "version update" comment to Bugzilla, please also add the output of the following checker script: That seems reasonable to me. The script could be added to the faq in the section "There's a new version of package Foo." as well, so that others outsi