Re: Apply MPFR upstream patch releases

2011-09-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:59:40 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > According to the home page, we should be applying the upstream patches > found here: > http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/allpatches > > See bugs section at: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/ Thanks DJ, this is now ticket #2918. Regards, Matt. -

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:27 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > >>> >> > I believe complexity was the main objection. Seriously? What complexity? I'm sorry but LFS is a complex book for advanced Linux users. We're really going to run away from a set of shell scripts because we can't be bothered to read th

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:27 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I believe complexity was the main objection. > > Seriously? What complexity? I'm sorry but LFS is a complex book for > advanced Linux users. We're really going to run away from a set of > shell scripts because we can't be

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote:e >> >> >> > Complexity was not the reason I rewrote the scripts. I didn't want to > add initd-tools to LFS, although I did add it to BLFS. I made the > scripts LSB compatible, but didn't use the initd-tools to install

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:e >>> >>> >> Complexity was not the reason I rewrote the scripts. I didn't want to >> add initd-tools to LFS, although I did add it to BLFS. I made the >> scripts LSB compatible, but didn't use

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > What point? That you duplicated all the effort DJ spent addressing these same issues and improvements in the LSB bootscripts. We had _long_ discussions about this which you seemed only vaguely interested in and did not appear to follow well and

binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread stefan schwarzer
Hi all, the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to "binutils-2.21.1" hence the book is wrong in assuming "binutils-2.21.1a" as extracted directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 "Cross Binutils" for the configure step. have fun Stefan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: h

Re: binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
stefan schwarzer wrote: > Hi all, > > the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to "binutils-2.21.1" > hence the book is wrong in assuming "binutils-2.21.1a" as extracted > directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 "Cross Binutils" for the configure > step. Right you are. Thanks for the heads up. I

Re: binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2

2011-09-02 Thread xinglp
2011/9/3 Bruce Dubbs : > stefan schwarzer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 package extracts to "binutils-2.21.1" >> hence the book is wrong in assuming "binutils-2.21.1a" as extracted >> directory is wrong in chapter 5.4 "Cross Binutils" for the configure >> step. > > Right you

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs > wrote: > >> What point? > > That you duplicated all the effort DJ spent addressing these same > issues and improvements in the LSB bootscripts. We had _long_ > discussions about this which you seemed only vaguely interested in >

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sep 2, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> >> > I didn't disregard the other work. I basically integrated the LSB > scripts into the old scripts and made some new changes that I felt were > needed Then I'm glad you didn't disregard the work. I still disagree with backporting cha