Problems compiling inetutils against readline-6.0

2009-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, I get this in my latest build logs, when trying to compile inetutils-1.6 against readline.6.0: mv -f .deps/ruserpass.Tpo .deps/ruserpass.Po gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o ftp cmds.o cmdtab.o domacro.o ftp.o main.o ruserpass.o -L../libinetutils -linetutils -L../lib -lgnu -lreadline -lcurse

Re: Problems compiling inetutils against readline-6.0

2009-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 3:46:58 -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi all, > > I get this in my latest build logs, when trying to compile inetutils-1.6 > against readline.6.0: > > mv -f .deps/ruserpass.Tpo .deps/ruserpass.Po > gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o ftp cmds.o cmdtab.o domacro.o ftp.o main.o > ru

Re: libusb-compat requires pkg-config

2009-02-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 02/28/09 17:00 CST: > Just to let you know that trying to build libusb-compat early on > in a BLFS build fails (hard fail in ./configure) if pkg-config > isn't installed. I'll fix this right now. This situation with pkg-config is just going to get worse and wor

Re: libusb-compat requires pkg-config

2009-02-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/28/09 19:33 CST: > While I'm not completely against putting pkg-config in LFS, we could also put > it > into Chapter 3 of BLFS, 'After LFS Configuration Issues'. It wouldn't surprise me if some LFS package looks for pkg-config in the near future. At that time,

Scripting root operations

2009-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, "Notes on Building Software" in BLFS recommends, quite rightly, that readers should do as little as possible as 'root', and only use superuser privs for operations that require them (e.g. 'make install'). And, as this is *LFS I have chosen to ignore that advice up until now and keep all t

Re: libusb-compat requires pkg-config

2009-02-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:05:41 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/28/09 19:33 CST: >> While I'm not completely against putting pkg-config in LFS, we could > also put it >> into Chapter 3 of BLFS, 'After LFS Configuration Issues'. > > It wouldn't surprise me if some