glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Taking this to -dev from http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2820 I have rebuilt the latest full svn book twice with the one change in chapter 6 changing glibc instructions from --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5 to -enable-kernel=2.6.30. I did not make a similar change to the Chapter 5 instru

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:34 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > In any case, should we change the book to update the glibc kernel option > to 2.6.30? I don't know if a similar change to the host system > prerequisites is also needed or not. I think we'd be wise to update the host system prerequisite

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:34 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> In any case, should we change the book to update the glibc kernel option >> to 2.6.30? I don't know if a similar change to the host system >> prerequisites is also needed or not. > > I think we'd be wise to u

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:13:21 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:34 -0600, Bruce Dubbs > wrote: >> >>> In any case, should we change the book to update the glibc kernel > option >>> to 2.6.30? I don't know if a similar change to the host system >>> p

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Burgess" To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 8:38 PM Subject: Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5 > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:13:21 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: >> I'm not sure about that. We are not building glibc against the host >> kernel. We are using the most recent headers from section 6.7. By >> specifying --enable-kernel= we are only telling the build system what >> features to use. > > Yes, I understand that. However,

Re: TeX Live is Alive!

2011-01-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 1/21/2011 3:18 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There is another problem. In the command: > > for FN in `find /usr/bin -type l`; do > if [ `readlink $FN | grep "\.\./texmf"` ]; then > ln -svf `readlink $FN | sed 's|\.\./texmf|../share/texmf|'` $FN > fi > done&& > unset FN > > I ge

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread hauradou
Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > >>> I'm not sure about that. We are not building glibc against the host >>> kernel. We are using the most recent headers from section 6.7. By >>> specifying --enable-kernel= we are only telling the build system what >>> features to use. >>>

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:09 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > OK, so do we use 2.6.30.2 (LFS-6.5)? Do we need to update any other > packages in the requirements or make everything from LFS-6.5 (Aug 2009)? > Right now, the minimum requirements are from LFS-6.3 (Aug 2007). If we set it to 2.6.30 (t

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:22:24 +0100, hauradou wrote: > what about changing that glibc configure line into something like: > enable-kernel=`uname -r | awk -F. '{ print $1"."$2"."$3 }'` > So that any of these versions could be convenient ? It would be easier to just use '--enable-kernel=current',

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
hauradou wrote: > Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >> I'm not sure about that. We are not building glibc against the host kernel. We are using the most recent headers from section 6.7. By specifying --enable-kernel= we are only telling the build system what >>

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:27:57PM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > If we set it to 2.6.30 (there's no point in adding the stable version as > Glibc only checks the major.minor.patch level), we'll miss out on > F_GETOWN_EX (new in 2.6.32 - see http://lwn.net/Articles/354842/) and > recvmmsg (new

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:09 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> OK, so do we use 2.6.30.2 (LFS-6.5)? Do we need to update any other >> packages in the requirements or make everything from LFS-6.5 (Aug 2009)? >> Right now, the minimum requirements are from LFS-6.3 (Aug 200

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:09 -0600, Bruce Dubbs >> wrote: >> >>> OK, so do we use 2.6.30.2 (LFS-6.5)? Do we need to update any other >>> packages in the requirements or make everything from LFS-6.5 (Aug 2009)? >>> Right now, the minimum requir

Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5

2011-01-21 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Dubbs" To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:34 PM Subject: Re: glibc issues with --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5 ... >> what about changing that glibc configure line into something like: >> enable-kernel=`uname -r | awk -F. '{ p