Re: Ready for LFS-6.2-pre2?

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: All outstanding tickets and other issues that I know of have been made to the lfs-6.2 branch: svn co svn://linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.2/BOOK If there are no other issues, I will release lfs-6.2-pre2 tomorrow (Saturday, July 22), probably early evening. Good! Howeve

Success with CLFS-2.0 on ARM

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, the CLFS-2.0 book is almost good: it produces a system bootable in qemu with only minimal deviations, documented below. Screenshot is attached. One can repeat the steps in the book and below and reproduce the screenshot even without actually having an ARM board. Deviations: 1) When b

Re: ntp nitpick

2006-07-22 Thread Thomas Trepl
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 07:26, Nathan Coulson wrote: >... >>ntp-stable-4.2.0a-20060224.tar.gz.md5 >... why not using 4.2.2 ? Is there a technical showstopper? Thomas ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: htt

I'm afraid this user error will become a FAQ

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
IRC log illustrating the problem is pasted below. (20:28:38) Tizer: Hi patrakov (20:28:46) patrakov: Hello Tizer (20:28:46) Tizer: networking woes... (20:28:50) ***Joe|afk wakes (20:28:51) Joe|afk: hi patrakov (20:28:54) Joe|afk теперь известен как Joe (20:28:57) patrakov: Hello Joe. (20:29:08) T

GRUB disk geometry not listed in chapter 3 in LFS 6.2

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Staub
The "Needed Patches" page does not list the GRUB Disk Geometry patch, as I found out when attempting to use jhalfs to build LFS 6.2. It needs to be added. Index: branches/6.2/BOOK/chapter03/patches.xml === --- branches/6.2/BOOK/chapt

Linux 2.6.16.27 UTF-8 patch does not exist

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Staub
The book just updated to linux-2.6.16.27, but there is currently no UTF-8 patch for that kernel in the patches repo. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-22 Thread Matthias B.
Forget it. I completely overlooked that the list_package functionality that is broken by the bash bug requires man, which is not available until after bash is rebuilt. So while applying the patch in chapter 5 would fix the swarm of error messages, it would not actually enable the functionality. Sor

Re: I'm afraid this user error will become a FAQ

2006-07-22 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > (20:29:08) Tizer: Interface eth0 doesn't exist... why not? Here's what we have today: > These rules will always rename the network cards to "realtek" and > "intel", independently of the original numbering provided by the > kernel (i.e.: the original "eth0" and "et

Re: GRUB disk geometry not listed in chapter 3 in LFS 6.2

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > The "Needed Patches" page does not list the GRUB Disk Geometry patch, as > I found out when attempting to use jhalfs to build LFS 6.2. It needs to > be added. > Indeed. Thanks. Fixed. Note: GRUB comes after Gawk (and Groff). I had to commit this twice myself to get it rig

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthias B. wrote: > Forget it. I completely overlooked that the list_package functionality > that is broken by the bash bug requires man, which is not available until > after bash is rebuilt. So while applying the patch in chapter 5 would fix > the swarm of error messages, it would not actually en

Re: Linux 2.6.16.27 UTF-8 patch does not exist

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > The book just updated to linux-2.6.16.27, but there is currently no > UTF-8 patch for that kernel in the patches repo. Thanks. Fixed in the patches repo as well as the 6.2 download area. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.lin

Re: Stability and debugging

2006-07-22 Thread Robert Connolly
On July 22, 2006 03:56 pm, Declan Moriarty wrote: > These sort of results question the whole business of compiling from > scratch. I have gathered this much > > 1. Compiling new versions (particularly gcc-4.1x) the way LFS does it is > somewhere between a major PITA and impossible. I'm not sure wha

Re: lfs-2.6-pre1 test report

2006-07-22 Thread Ismael Luceno
The first time i built ncurses-5.5 tic complained about some unresolved symbols. I built ncurses-5.5 again (this time on LFS-6.2-pre1), and tic doesn't complain anymore, maybe i did something that caused the problem, or maybe the problem is related to the host. I will try to recreate the problem

LFS 6.2-pre2 Released

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the second pre-release of LFS 6.2. This release provides several updated to the -pre1 release. It includes several minor textual changes and updates patches to vim and grub. It also includes an update to Linix-2.6.16.27. This being a test rel

Re: I'm afraid this user error will become a FAQ

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: (20:29:08) Tizer: Interface eth0 doesn't exist... why not? Here's what we have today: These rules will always rename the network cards to "realtek" and "intel", independently of the original numbering provided by the kernel (i.e.: the origin

Adjusting toolchain

2006-07-22 Thread Robert Connolly
Hi. Sorry if this has been discused before. Rather than: SPECFILE=`dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs && gcc -dumpspecs > $SPECFILE && sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' $SPECFILE > tempspecfile && mv -vf tempspecfile $SPECFILE && unset SPECFILE I find it cleaner and e

Re: GRUB disk geometry not listed in chapter 3 in LFS 6.2

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Staub
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Note: GRUB comes after Gawk (and Groff). I had to commit this twice myself to get it right. -- Bruce But in the build order, GRUB is built before either of those. It is listed first (among the Gs) because it is actually an acronym. Not really a big deal to me either way

Re: I'm afraid this user error will become a FAQ

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > One more issue is with Atheros wi-fi driver: it reportedly creates two > interfaces with identical MAC addresses, and our rules go crazy. Since I > don't have the corresponding hardware, I can't offer a working solution. I have the hardware, but I don't use it that

Re: Adjusting toolchain

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Connolly wrote: > Hi. Sorry if this has been discused before. Rather than: > > SPECFILE=`dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs && > gcc -dumpspecs > $SPECFILE && > sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' $SPECFILE > tempspecfile > && > mv -vf tempspecfile $SPECFILE && >

Re: GRUB disk geometry not listed in chapter 3 in LFS 6.2

2006-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Note: GRUB comes after Gawk (and Groff). I had to commit this twice >> myself to get it right. >> >> -- Bruce > > But in the build order, GRUB is built before either of those. It is > listed first (among the Gs) because it is actually an acronym. Not >

Re: Adjusting toolchain

2006-07-22 Thread Robert Connolly
On July 23, 2006 12:47 am, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Can you create a ticket for this so we don't forget it? I'd like to, but my hlfs wiki login doesn't work for the lfs wiki, and I can't register at the lfs wiki because my login is already taken. I'd email jhuntwork except that he hasn't replied to