Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Umm, no. jhalfs parses the xml of the book and creates a Makefile that >> builds >> by the LFS book. Actually, it is quite convenient. > > ICA is in fact implemented as an optional feature of jhalfs. Which means >

Re: Fwd: Re: Document version not set with jhalfs-20081011

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
George Boudreau wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> Forwarding to lfs-dev...I'm currently unable to commit to SVN (my own >> network setup here). I'd guess we either need to revert back to the '-' or >> change it to '–' (note the additional ';'). >> >> George, how does 'xmllint' puke? It'd be nic

Re: Fwd: Re: Document version not set with jhalfs-20081011

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
George Boudreau wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> George Boudreau wrote: >>> Matthew Burgess wrote: >>>> Forwarding to lfs-dev...I'm currently unable to commit to SVN (my own >>>> network setup here). I'd guess we either need to revert back to t

perl-5.10.0

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm puzzling over two tickets concerning perl: 2071 and 2227 It looks like 2071 says that we need to add -Dvendorprefix=/usr to the configuration process, but configure.gnu doesn't support it. Dan mentions that he uses: sh ./Configure -des \ -Dprefix=/usr \ -Dsiteprefix=/usr

Package freeze

2008-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Right now all the tickets for packages and instructions have been fixed. Any new packages should be targeted to 7.0 from now on. If there is a strong security issue, we will address that, but normal updates should not go into 6.4. There are three open tickets for 6.4. One is a bootscript issu

Re: SVN-20081031

2008-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
TheOldFellow wrote: > Just a note to say that I built and booted it today. No issues. I > even ran almost all the tests. I added Device-mapper+LVM2 and replaced > SysVinit with runit as is my wont, so this doesn't test the bootscripts. Thank you for the feedback Richard. I am planning on cutti

LFS 6.4-rc1 is released

2008-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
appreciated. -- Bruce Dubbs LFS Release Manager -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Download for Ncurses 5.6 broken in LFS 6.4 rc-1

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rick Houkes wrote: > While attempting to build LFS 6.4 rc-1, during to process of getting > all necessary packages and patches I found out the download link for > Ncurses 5.6 is broken. Ncurses 5.6 can still be downloaded here: > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.6.tar.gz. Fixed. Thanks.

Re: expect 5.43.0 / tcl 8.5.x

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: > the current rc1 and SVN-20081106 both require the following patch > > expect-5.43.0-tcl_8.5.4_fix-1.patch > > > both versions use tcl 8.5.5. > > as i did not compile the book but just am downloading the packages i > can't tell you wether the fix is still required or not.

Re: gmp required ABI=32

2008-11-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gilles Espinasse wrote: > From: "Tobias Gasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> i had to add ABI=32 as my system was identified ad 64bit. >> >> ./configure ABI=32 --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd >> >> i'm using CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i486" as a global setting, overwritten for >> some special cases m

Is LFS 6.4 ready for release?

2008-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I don't know of any outstanding issues except the GMP issue with some combinations of hardware and CFLAGS setting. Although we recommend not using CFLAGS, that could be addressed with a note. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Re: Is LFS 6.4 ready for release?

2008-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I don't know of any outstanding issues except the GMP issue with some >> combinations of hardware and CFLAGS setting. Although we recommend not >> using >> CFLAGS, that could be addressed with a note. > > I

Re: Version in glibc

2008-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> #define RELEASE "stable" >> -#define VERSION "2.8" >> +#define VERSION "2.8-20080929-LFS" >> [snip] >> Is there any interest in doing something like this ? > > I like it except the -LFS. As we don't modify it one bit, why > add the LFS? It is a sto

Re: man-pages-3.13

2008-11-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lefteris Dimitroulakis wrote: > Is it too late to update to man-pages-3.13? We probably need to put a note into the book that the man pages are updated relatively frequently and the latest version can probably be used without issues. Thoughts? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Re: License of the book - really version 2.0 of creative commons?

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 09:31:20 schrieb Thomas Reitelbach: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm currently in the process of translating current 6.4 LFS to german. >> Now I'm wondering about licensing. The book says it's licensed under >> „Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2

Re: Please add a l10n block for "de" in lfs-l10n.xml

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > Hello list, > > can someone please add the following translated l10n block to > > stylesheets/lfs-xsl/lfs-l10n.xml > > (diff also attached as file). This is necessary to provide german > translations > for some standard terms. Other languages are already included in

Re: License of the book - really version 2.0 of creative commons?

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 19:37:43 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: >> 2.0 was current when I added the license. Perhaps they rolled the number >> ot make it the same as GPL, but that's just speculation. Since the entire >> text is in the book and not

Releasing LFS-6.4

2008-11-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
LFS-6.4-rc1 has been out two and a half weeks now and there are really no significant issues that I know about. Of course there are some changes that could be made, but I don't know of any that really *need* to be made. A problem with delaying is that newer packages continue to be available, so

LFS 6.4 is released

2008-11-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/6.4/ -- Bruce Dubbs LFS Release Manager -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.4 is released

2008-11-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > The german translation is already available at my site. > > http://oss.erdfunkstelle.de/lfs-de/ Thanks Thomas. I updated the website to add a link to 6.4 German version. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscr

Re: Problems with PDF Output

2008-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
/S/SBUThomas Reitelbach wrote: > Hello list, > > the german translation for LFS 6.4 is already finished. But I got a problem > with the PDF output and I'm pretty sure that you can help me :) > > Attached you'll find a little screenshot which shows, how the translated PDF > looks like. You'll no

Re: LFS 6.4 is released

2008-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Benjamin John wrote: > Hello, it would be nice if someone could create a tag for 6.4 in the svn > repository. All older versions are tagged and jhalfs serches in the tags for > the sources of the book. OK, done. Thanks for the reminder. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Problems with PDF Output

2008-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > But it would have been wise to fix this before the release. I'm of course not > one of those people to decide such things. But for the last releases i > believe that someone (who?) resolved rendering issues like this with the > book. I've made that last couple of re

Re: Problems with PDF Output

2008-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > Forgive the obvious, but I'm thinking a smaller font for these parts. I > don't see any problem with having smaller text in these sections of the > book as they are tables and appendixes, not necessarily required > reading. I don't have any clue how to go about doing this, b

Re: The value of 64-bit vs 32-bit

2008-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm responding to the initial post, but I've read several responses and implicitly am responding to those too. > About a month or so ago I'd said I'd start looking into writing a > section for LFS that deals with pros/con

[Fwd: LFS 6.4: Helped me with with "/tools/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_eh " in Chapter 5.7 Patch for glibc --]

2008-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Original Message Subject: LFS 6.4: Helped me with with "/tools/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_eh " in Chapter 5.7 Patch for glibc -- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:43:45 +0100 From: Druckerfehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey there, i wan't to submit the patch http:

Re: Aiming for 7.0

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> Anything else? > > Ticket 2033 -- initramfs. This way people with crappy software "RAID1 > cards" (e.g. Promise, Highpoint, etc.) that require drivers in Windows, > can still boot from those cards. Also, support for MD RAID (*real* > software RAID

Re: Aiming for 7.0

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Ok, so we have a fair amount of items we'd like to push into 7.0, some > of which, work has already begun. > > As far as step-by-step plan of attack goes, how does this sound? > > 1. Move to DIY's new build method in trunk. If we ignore multilib and > any extra arch sup

Re: Optional prefixes (targeting 7.0)

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > Guys and gals, > > Is there any real desire to support the optional installation prefixes > of X, QT, Gnome, and KDE in the book after package management enters? > Maybe I'm just being lazy, but at this point, I kinda view it as an > unnecessary maintenance burden. Not to me

Re: Aiming for 7.0

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Schumacher wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> >>>> Ticket 2033 -- initramfs. This way people with crappy software "RAID1 >>>> cards" (e.g. Promise, Highpoint, etc.) that require drivers in Windows, >>>

Re: Little spelling error

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Marc Ferland wrote: > I hope this is the right mailing list for reporting spelling errors. Yes, exactly the right place. > I'm currently following LFS v6.4. in chap. 5.21 > > The paragraph: "This parameter bypasses the search for mktime in configure > and > uses the version in glibc. The is ne

Re: 6.4 - 5.17.1 Coreutils

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Thornton wrote: > Quote: "There's an internal issue with Coreutils which makes some of the > programs behave abnormally if you build using an older kernel." > > It doesn't state what is considered "old." 2.2? 2.4? 2.6.xx.x? Hard to say. Take a look at the patch. "We provide a fallback for

Re: Missing operand in kernel installation doc

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Marc Ferland wrote: > Hi, > > I've discovered another very small error in the kernel installation doc > (chapter 8.3, in LFS 6.4). > > The line: > "If the kernel source tree is going to be retained, run chown -R 0:0 on the > linux-2.6.27.4 directory to ensure all files are owned by user root.

Re: Proper use of digests [was: Re: lfs-dev Digest, Vol 1235, Issue 1]

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Schumacher wrote: > But what is the further intent here The intent is for the subject line to reflect the general content of the reply. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information pa

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Gifford wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> Greg Schafer wrote: >> >>> the Acknowledgments page will suffice. "... Technical Writer and Architect >>> of the Next Generation 64-bit-enabling Build Method" or similar. >>> >> I'll give you a day or so to decide on the exact wording you prefe

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: > It's a community endeavor and each project with it's own goal. Each project > may borrow from another, and each project needs to give credit to the source. > If any part of the source is used credit needs to be given. It's a black and > white line. William, While I

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Gifford wrote: > Enough on that subject, OK. Time to move on. > As far as LFS Dev privs, thanx but no thanx. You can delete them, not to > mention, someone changed by password on me a while back, because they > were afraid when CLFS moved away to it's own servers. I have no interest > i

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Gifford wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> Jim, you have not yet said how you would like CLFS to be credited. > The license specifies the terms. > http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.1.0/x86/appendices/license.html Jim, I took a look at the page and am having a bit of difficulty in determining how

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Olaf wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> In academia, the accepted method of using other authors' ideas is to just >> create >> a bibliographic entry. In BLFS, the first section of the Introduction is >> Acknowledgments, but there is no similar section in LFS. Perh

Re: 6.13 GMP-4.2.4 Installation of GMP

2008-12-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: > Prepare Zlib for compilation: > > Prepare GMP for compilation: Fixed. Thanks. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Package management and creating the file system layout

2008-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> a technical reason not to create the entire 'base' while in chapter 4? >> > Oops, that should have been 'chapter 5'. Can you explain what you mean by "create the entire 'base'". -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: htt

Re: Package management and creating the file system layout

2008-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Can you explain what you mean by "create the entire 'base'". >> > Again, looking at this from a packaging point of view, IMO, all files > and directories that are created manually should be together on on

Re: Package management and creating the file system layout

2008-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > Woah..reading a bit too much into it. As David correctly pointed out, > I'm only suggesting that creating the basic filesystem (sections > 6.2-6.6) be reordered, or rather reworked. > > Creating packages at build time is the goal, however, the packages would > be installed i

Mailing list problems

2008-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I have just gone through a lot of messages being held on both the -dev and -support lists. I rejected most of the messages because they had html embedded in them. Do *not* post in HTML. Further posts may either be rejected or just discarded depending on how patient I feel. See: http://www.l

Re: md5sum for lfs-bootscripts-20081031.tar.bz2

2008-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
jp wrote: > hi, all > > I rendered the xml of the development book. Surprisingly, the md5sum of > lfs-bootscripts differs from what is on the website. > > Can someone explain what is happening ? You don't say what version you are rendering. In any case, there are a couple of scripts, make-aux-

Re: ExtLinux Bootloader Information

2008-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Gifford wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> I assume an initramfs is possible via some kind of "initrd" type line? >> I'll have to look. >> >> (I give a udev by-id symlink for root=, which is resolved by initramfs.) >> >> > APPEND initrd=initrd.img > > That will take care of that >>> extlinux

kernel section mismatch

2008-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been getting a warning when building the kernel (2.6.27.4): WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable initial_code to the function .init.text:i386_start_kernel() The variable __cpuinitdata initial_code references a function __init i386_start_kernel

Re: Sysroot based sane multilib toolchain build for LFS style builds [update]

2008-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Greg Schafer wrote: > Ryan Oliver wrote: > >> # Sysroot based SANE multilib cross-compiler build for LFS style builds > > Heh, this is hilarious. A new and improved build method goes into LFS and > CLFS folks awake from the dead :-) Feeling some pressure guys? :-) > > Sorry mate, but this whole

Re: Glibc download location

2008-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > LFS builders in IRC are reporting on a daily basis that they cannot > download the Glibc version listed in the book since that snapshot is no > longer available at the redhat ftp site. The link in the book should > point to the LFS ftp download site, > ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.

Re: CLFS discussion

2008-12-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tushar Teredesai wrote: > I still don't get it. Does the current LFS leadership get to decide > what every project that ever "forked" from LFS can and cannot do? No, and I don't think it's even being tried. There are some expressions of regret that there are personality conflicts and a wish by

libusb and usbutils

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
We have a problem with libusb and usbutils. libusb has released 1.0.0 on 2008-12-13. usbutils is at version 0.73 released on 2007-10-24. usbutils configure wants a function, usb_get_string_simple(), that is not in libusb-1.0.0. There are functions libusb_get_string_descriptor() and libusb_get

Re: Can I publish a translation of LFS

2009-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > Lookling at the books licence general I would say, you can publish your > translated book in any form if you like. Um, no. The license is NonCommercial. "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intend

Re: Pages printed twice in index of PDF.

2009-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Martin Miehe wrote: > In the indices of current stable book (and in 6.3 as well) are several > page numbers printed twice after one entry. E.g. at > Programs -> acinstall > Programs -> aclocal > Programs -> addpart > Programs -> autoconf > > and so on. > > Has this been done purposely or is it

Re: Adapting LFS SVN for multilib

2009-01-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Gifford wrote: > I can't take one individuals word on things, because frankly I don't > trust some I can't validate myself. Trust has very little to do with it, but I agree. Any scientific investigation has to provide enough details to be able to duplicate the results. To do this, we hav

LFS Ticket system

2009-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > > I would have created a Trac ticket, but Trac appears to be broken at the > moment. I keep seeing stuff like "Warning: > " on the top of > every page, and cannot create or edit tickets. Chris, I took a look at the tickets and I don't see any problem with viewing tickets

Re: LFS Ticket system

2009-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > Nope, still can't create or edit tickets. Also, "Moody" in IRC has > reported the same problem (actually, he mentioned it first, which is > what caused me to look at Trac in the first place). Plus, I get exactly > the same result in both Firefox and Links. > > Now that I l

Re: LFS Ticket system

2009-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:19:18 +0100, Thomas Trepl > wrote: > Just to let you know that I also had this same issue immediately after Jeremy > upgraded > one of the Trac plugins a couple of weeks ago. I carried on browsing Trac > until, at > some point it prompted me to c

Re: Pending package updates

2009-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Just thought I'd drop a note on the pending package updates I've assigned to > myself. I have patches to the book for all of these now. > > However, as expected by looking at ticket #2322, there's slight issues with > Groff-1.20.1 and its interaction with Man-DB-2.5.3.

Re: Let William comment and make tickets

2009-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > William Immendorf wrote these words on 02/11/09 16:04 CST: >> THIS IS UNFAIR! WILLIAM NEEDS TO HAVE TICKET PREMITIONS!! > > Why must you feel you have to shout in ALL CAPS? You'd be so much > more accepted if you just followed the decorum we've established over > the ye

LFS trac password file is hosed

2009-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Guys, I accidentally hosed the lfs password file. Registration doesn't seem to work either. I'm working on it. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS trac password file is hosed

2009-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Guys, >I accidentally hosed the lfs password file. Registration doesn't seem to > work either. I'm working on it. The registration problem I had was an issue with my browser. Registration works. We don't have a backup of the password file,

Re: LFS trac password file is hosed

2009-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Guys, >>I accidentally hosed the lfs password file. Registration doesn't seem to >> work either. I'm working on it. > > The registration problem I had was an issue with my browser. Registration > works.

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > PS: Nice to see you back on the lists, Archaic. I agree. Archaic, don't be a stranger. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > A while back I sanitized the bootscripts for POSIX sh compatibility, > and I think DJ has been maintaining that goal. I think it's a nice > (and obtainable) goal to target since having sh != bash can save on > bloat. Save on bloat? For what? My copy of bash is 500K. dash

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:58:45 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Matthew Burgess >> wrote: >>> Given that LFS only installs bash, does any of this matter? :) >> A while back I sanitized the bootscripts for POSIX sh compatibility, >> and I think

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:41:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I would really go the other way and make all the scripts start with >> #!/bin/bash >> and use the features of bash. When we use the lowest common denominator, we >> prevent progress. I

Re: perl's use or non-use of pthread

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > To use -Dusethreads or not, that is the question. :) > > Without, I get 2 files that are linked to pthread: > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i686-linux/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so > /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i686-linux/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so > > With, I get: > > /usr/bin/perl5.10.0 > /usr/b

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >>> A while back I sanitized the bootscripts for POSIX sh compatibility, and >>> I think DJ has been maintaining that goal. I think it's a nice (and >&

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, at 07:12 Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> If you were looking at a system (not just a computer system) and you >> found that one part took twice the resources and twic

Re: vimrc recommendation

2009-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > The vimrc that LFS creates is very spartan. There is a default > configuration that isn't bad plus it gives new users a quick idea of how > powerful the rc can be. > > cp runtime/vimrc_example.vim /etc/vimrc > > The if statement for bg=dark is not included, but could be appended

Re: m4 badness

2009-04-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Greg Schafer wrote: > Hi, > > Just stumbled across this. You will likely want to fix it: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2009-02/msg00010.html Thanks Greg. I've removed it from -dev and added an errata item to the website for the stable book. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfroms

Re: Vulnerabilities in udev

2009-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > When building an old version, don't forget to use the instructions > that applied when you built it originally! You do keep either the > version of the book that you used, or buildscripts, right ? The > released version of the books are mostly at > http://archive.linuxfromsc

LFS-6.5

2009-05-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I am proposing that we release LFS 6.5 in the next week or so. We really haven't made a lot of progress on the main issues of the targeted 7.0 release, but there has been good incremental progress on the routine updates of package versions in the book. LFS-6.4 was released last November. I've

Re: LFS-6.5

2009-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > OK...The what happens for BLFS? I'm guessing BLFS-6.4 will be a no go, > and BLFS should be targeting current SVN? I would think that is reasonable. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

zdiff problem

2009-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm trying to address ticket #2315 that says zdiff doesn't work. I confirmed this by creating two files with a one line difference and compressing them: gzip file1 gzip file2 But 'zdiff file1.gz file2.gz' gives no output. Older versions of the script work properly. The code in the script is

Re: zdiff problem

2009-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm trying to address ticket #2315 that says zdiff doesn't work. I confirmed >> this by creating two files with a one line difference and compressing them: >> >> gzip file1 >>

Re: zdiff problem

2009-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> The problem code looks like: >> >> gzip_status=$( >>exec 4>&1 >>(gzip -cdfq -- "$1" 4>&-; echo $? >&4) 3>&- | >> ( (gzip -cdfq -- "$2" 4>&

LFS-6.5 Issues

2009-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
As discussed at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2391, we've run into an issue with util-linux-ng. The best solution appears to hold off LFS-6.5 until util-linux-ng-2.16 is released in 2 to 3 weeks. This change will also affect e2fsprogs as libuuid is being transitioned from e2fspr

glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been going through the -dev book manually and have run into a problem at the start of Chapter 6. The build of glibc-2.10.1 goes without a problem, but make check fails even with the -k parameter: /usr/bin/perl scripts/begin-end-check.pl argp/argp.h ... > /sources/glibc-build/begin-end-

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> The build of glibc-2.10.1 goes without a problem, but make check fails even >> with >> the -k parameter: >> >> /usr/bin/perl scripts/begin-end-check.pl argp/argp.h ... >>> /sources/glibc-build/begin-en

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
OK, I ran the instructions to build glibc-2.10.1 on a LFS-6.4 system and ithe checks completed normally. There was one error identified: make[2]: [/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) but this is already identified in the book. I think we may have some problems wit

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > OK, I ran the instructions to build glibc-2.10.1 on a LFS-6.4 system and ithe > checks completed normally. There was one error identified: > > make[2]: [/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) > > but this is already identifi

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Another glibc issue: We use: ../glibc-2.10.1/configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \ --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc Where: --enable-kernel=VERSION compile for compatibility with kernel not older than VERSION but I found http://www.mail-ar

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Trent Shea wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 16:31:12 Trent Shea wrote: >> I'll see if I can hack jhalfs to keep my build directories and provide up >> to date information this week. Thanks, Trent. > I'm just running a jhalfs build right now. A bunch of errors: What version of the book did you use?

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Trent Shea wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 16:31:12 Trent Shea wrote: >> I'll see if I can hack jhalfs to keep my build directories and provide up >> to date information this week. > > I'm just running a jhalfs build right now. A bunch of errors: > > grep Error 068-glibc > make[3]: *** [/sources/g

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:53:33 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> OK, I've got the problem solved. My errors are similar to the above, but >> the only errors I'm getting are tst-fgetwc.out and annexc.out. > > Firstly, apologies for

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Bryan Kadzban > wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> --enable-kernel=VERSION compile for compatibility with kernel not older than >>>VERSION >> Yes: abort any program at startup if the current kernel

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gilles Espinasse wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Dubbs" To: >> Using 2.6.18 appears to potentially affect binaries built against kernels >> older than that and run on a LFS-6.5 or later system. I don't see where >> that would be an

LFS-6.5 Status

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=milestone&order=id This is a progress report on what remains for LFS-6.5: #1929Use 'make install', when it can work, instead of 'cp', when installing single files.bdubbs I haven't heard any feedb

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> The reason I saw was so code didn't have to check for certain features at run >> time. The would be to make things easier for the programmers. 2.6.18 >>

Re: LFS-6.5 Status

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emmanuel Trillaud wrote: > I am currently translating some hints in french, including the > optimization one. I was planning to proposed a patch soon to update the > hint and I saw your status report on LFS 6.5. > >> #2414 Evaluate Optimization hint unassigned > here is some things that

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the missing pieces on the server to allow PDF > generation again (JDK, FOP and FAI). > > First attempt to render the PDF seems to have successful minus a few > warnings regarding missing fonts and an overflow problem in a paragraph. > > Generat

Re: LFS-6.5 Status

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> #2326Modifications to Preface gerard >> >> Some changes have been made. Waiting for final review to close. >> >> #2092 Switch all text back from third person to second person pronouns >> gerard >> >> Some fixes have been made. We can probably promote thi

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> I looked for the overflow, but couldn't find it. I would have thought it >> might >> have been one of the boot or udev scripts, but I didn't spot the problem. >> You >> might look at the lfs-pdf.fo and see if you can get to block 1824. I think >> that >> 1pt == 10

Re: LFS-6.5 Status

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> #2326Modifications to Preface gerard >> >> Some changes have been made. Waiting for final review to close. >> >> #2092 Switch all text back from third person to second person pronouns >> gerard >> >> Some fixes have been made. We can probably promote thi

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> I looked for the overflow, but couldn't find it. I would have thought it >> might >> have been one of the boot or udev scripts, but I didn't spot the problem. >> You >> might look at the lfs-pdf.fo and see if you can get to block 1824. I think >> that >> 1pt == 10

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> I tried running make pdf on quantum, but got: >> >> /bin/sh: fop: command not found >> > > I didn't add the JDK and FOP directories to the global $PATH yet. > > Add the appropriate lines to your .bash_profile or .bashrc: > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/fop > export JAVA_HOME=/op

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> I think I found it. In the very last page of the index: >> >> # /usr/include/{asm{,-generic},drm,linux,mtd, rdma,sound,video}/*.h: >> Linux-2.6.29.4 API Headers >> > While I appreciate the way that's written, it's hardly readable and it > does take a few careful loo

Re: LFS-BOOK PDF generation

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > May 26, 2009 8:03:58 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.FontInfo notifyFontReplacement > WARNING: Font 'Symbol,normal,700' not found. Substituting with > 'Symbol,normal,400'. > > May 26, 2009 8:03:58 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.FontInfo notifyFontReplacement > WARNING: Font 'ZapfDingba

Re: glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

2009-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Trent Shea wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 21:09:35 Trent Shea wrote: >> make[3]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-mutex5.out] Error 1 >> make[3]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-mutex9.out] Error 1 >> make[3]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-mutex5a.out] Error 1 > > Alright, I believe that

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