Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread TheOldFellow
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:53:42 + TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:03:53 +1100 > Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > > Umm, no. jhalfs parses the xml of the book and creates a Makefile that > > > builds > > > by the LFS boo

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never looked at jhalfs but I understand it implements my ICA > algorithms. My own scripts have been getting exceptionally clean > results lately now that the randomness in GCC builds has apparently gone > as of GCC 4.

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:59 AM, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I meant to say was that I, for one, would be grateful for any > additional documentation of the subject. It's pretty straightforward, although I might butcher some of the terminology. The main goal is to see if the

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Gilles Espinasse
Selon Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > > The actual implementation mostly involves preparing to diff/cmp, and > is probably better explained by the comments in gsbuild. Look at the > bottom of the functions file for do_ica_prep() and do_ica_work(). > > http://cvs.diy-linux.org/index.cgi/gs

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:51:38AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've never looked at jhalfs but I understand it implements my ICA > > algorithms. My own scripts have been getting exceptionally clean > > results lately

BRLTTY

2008-10-27 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Since future hlfs will require to reboot after temporary system and before final system, I suggest to add as last package (optional) BRLTTY, so that it could start at the boot of temporary system. Without it, hlfs will become unaccessible for any blind people. I propose to write a basic pa

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Gilles Espinasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead to gunzip all .gz files, would it not better to submit patches that > add > -n when gzip run so the files in use will really be the same? > I should say I have made some patches like that but have not reported

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Gilles Espinasse
Selon Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > > Archaic saw unresolved differences for x86 with gcc-4.1.2. > Actually, looking at his results (they're at ~/archaic) they look > pretty good - blkid.tab.old and locale-archive should probably now > be expected to differ, and they were the only differe

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > Selon Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > > > > Archaic saw unresolved differences for x86 with gcc-4.1.2. > > Actually, looking at his results (they're at ~/archaic) they look > > pretty good - blkid.tab.old and locale-arc

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:15:31AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > In farce, Ken had some > functions that would skip these stamps, but I don't recall how he > implemented that. > For gzipped files, just cmp -s -i 8 (the comment says bytes 4,5,6,7 are the timestamp, hopefully everything ahead of i

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-27 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:06 PM Subject: Re: ICA/Farce > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > Selon Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ... > > > >