Re: r8649 - in trunk/BOOK: appendices chapter01 chapter05

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: randy > Date: 2008-10-12 09:09:40 -0600 (Sun, 12 Oct 2008) > New Revision: 8649 > > Modified: >trunk/BOOK/appendices/dependencies.xml >trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml >trunk/BOOK/chapter05/chapter05.xml > Log: > Moved the Chapter 5 M4 installation

Re: r8649 - in trunk/BOOK: appendices chapter01 chapter05

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Whichever way I look at it, it feels dirty. :/ Just as a followup, what I would suggest is: * move m4 to a location similar to other packages in chapter 5 so that it is linked against our temporary libs in /tools and will work independently with /tools. (Let&#x

Re: Using m4 in the temporary tools and installing it after autoconf in chapter 6 makes a tool of a autoconf link to the m4 in /tools

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Chris Staub wrote: > Another problem (not really related to this, but it does also involve > m4) is that, as the book is now, m4 in /tools is not linked to /tools. > Either m4 needs to be built again in /tools sometime after the toolchain > adjustment, or the host system's m4 can be used for GCC

Re: Using m4 in the temporary tools and installing it after autoconf in chapter 6 makes a tool of a autoconf link to the m4 in /tools

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I'd prefer to get rid of it. It wasn't there at all (since 2007 or so) > until gcc's extra bits added it as a requirement... I'd tend to agree, but, if it's not built at all in chapter 5, what do you do in chapter 6 for final gcc? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: Using m4 in the temporary tools and installing it after autoconf in chapter 6 makes a tool of a autoconf link to the m4 in /tools

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Chris Staub wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> >> I'd prefer to get rid of it. It wasn't there at all (since 2007 or so) >> until gcc's extra bits added it as a requirement... > > You mean, don't put m4 in /tools at all, and just build it right before > GMP in Chapter 6? Sounds like that could wor

Re: Using m4 in the temporary tools and installing it after autoconf in chapter 6 makes a tool of a autoconf link to the m4 in /tools

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The oldest version on ftp.gnu.org is 1.4.1 dated June 2004. The m4 on my RH 6.2 box says it's 1.4 and it seems to do fine. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Ticket #2115 - another note about unpacking and changing directories

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2115 > > I am starting to address the subject ticket. I propose to follow Chris' > suggestion and move the 'Toolchain Technical Notes' section to the appendix > between Acknowledgments and Dependencies. I will then change the >

[RFC] Proposal of LiveCD project changes

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello, First off, thanks to everyone for the comments given, they were very helpful. Based in part on the comments, and upon my own estimation of the project, I have a proposal to make wrt the future of the project. I'll try to keep it as brief as possible, but here are the changes to the goal

Toolchain Adjustment broken?

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello all, With the upgrade to gcc 4.3.2, I believe the section in the toolchain adjustment in chapter 5 that deals with fixed includes is broken. For those of you that have recently built with jhalfs, I'd appreciate it if you'd look in your logs to verify that the following commands have actu

Re: Toolchain Adjustment broken?

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
DJ Lucas wrote: > No, not good. Ignoring the fact that the command is broken, and no time > to look right now, but the `dirname $(gcc > -print-libgcc-file-name)`/include/limits.h file needs the > ../include-fixed/syslimits.h, which includes this string. Removing the > gcc version of limits.h

Re: Toolchain Adjustment broken?

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Then: > > root [ ~ ]# ls -l /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include-fixed/ > total 12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3470 2008-10-19 18:59 limits.h > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 750 2008-10-19 18:59 README > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 2008-10-19 18:5

Re: Toolchain Adjustment broken?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
DJ Lucas wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> The command I propose is: >> >> GCC_FIXED=`dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/include-fixed && >> find ${GCC_FIXED}/* -maxdepth 0 -xtype d -exec rm -rvf '{}' \; && >> rm -vf `grep -l &q

Re: Toolchain Adjustment broken?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Greg Schafer wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >> I think this is the right answer. Greg, if you're reading, do you have >> any comments to make on this topic? > > None at all, sorry. Next Gen build method utilizes cross compilation for > the initial Pass 1 to

Minimum Host Prerequisites

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello, So after some testing on a Redhat 6.2 system, I can say definitely that our host pre-reqs are higher than they technically need to be. I'd like to eventually drop all the below changes into the jh branch, but I just wanted to give a little status report first, for those interested. Firs

Re: Minimum Host Prerequisites

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > That's interesting Jeremy, but as a minimum, I wouldn't want to make the > changes > for LFS 6.4. I don't think you are proposing that but I wanted to make it > explicit. Yes, I wasn't aiming for 6.4. As I said, these changes will be going into the jh branch. The only thi

Re: Minimum Host Prerequisites

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:36:14AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> * "Gcc-3.0.1" can at _least_ become "Gcc-2.95" I don't know if you >> want to mention "egcs-2.91.66" but it works. >> > Possibly, but if you have

Re: Minimum Host Prerequisites

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> To me, 2.6.9 is ancient history! (4 years old). I think something >> like 2.6.16 (purely because it is still getting long-term support >> updates) is a better minimum, but also I think we should encourage >> people to build a new kernel first (if they

Re: Minimum Host Prerequisites

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: [snip] Thanks for the clarifications, they were very helpful. > Forcing the user to build the kernel before they start may work I would think that doing this would provide optimal build results for glibc. If you do it after the first pass of gcc, but before glibc, then yo

Re: Linux API Headers

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Anyway, it's because the headers_install process first completely > removes everything in the target directory which would wipe out > the stuff that is in there in Chapter 5. > > In Chapter 6 we could actually change it to go straight to > /usr/include as there should be no

Re: Dev book rendering

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 10/26/08 12:47 CST: >>> DJ Lucas wrote: Yeah. I forgot to bump the book version entity. I remembered around 12:35 AM CDT, but I'm not sure if it was too late to bump it. >>> 0415 MST. >> So, why didn't the b

Re: Linux API Headers

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 10/26/08 14:34 CST: > >> Before you go changing anything, see here: > > I didn't mean Bruce should actually change anything. My response was > more on the technical side in that if it *were* changed, t

Re: ICA/Farce

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
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 that when it's done building LFS by the book, it will try to build

Re: Suggestion: Install editor in /bin in case /usr not mounted

2005-02-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: I'm on the fence about this one. I build a static bash and someother static tools of which vim is one of them, for recovery needs, but I'm not sure if the book should recommend that or install vim in /bin in the first place. A somewhat valid argument would be sed for emergency purpos

Re: LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Steve Crosby wrote: okay - so from Linux it is ;) Instaling Aurora Linux now because it was handy, any other recommendations for a host distro? Just so happens that I'm working on a sparc install as well :) It's an UltraSparcIIi in a Sun Netra T1 105. So far Gentoo has been working well for me

LFS News Server

2005-04-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
s may cause, but hopefully you'll agree that this is better than having "lost" posts that show up on the newslists, but are not reflected in the mailman archives or to email-only subscribers. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://ww

Re: 6.1 release?

2005-04-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
t's ready to go as well. It would nicely bring it all up-to-date and fix a few bugs, notably, the strip bug and the 2.6.8.1 cd-writing bug. I'd like to see a release happen now. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: 6.1 release?

2005-04-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
, (the new release was mostly just to get sysklogd back in) and as Matt just posted as well, likely a testing phase before release would go through. I think that should prove enough time to test the latest version of the scripts. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 6.1 release branch

2005-04-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ld like to see it listed somewhere for reference. ;) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 6.1 release branch

2005-04-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
#x27;ve got the book ready to change if it's deemed that gnu.org is the better link. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 6.1 release branch

2005-04-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: Confirmed that 1.36 ran check ok, diffed it and realised this is a new test. Google found one thread for e2fsprogs tst_ostype - the fix is at http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-March/000490.html Thanks, Greg. Did I miss the LFS editorial decision not to test

Re: Error while configuring glibc in LFS version 6

2005-04-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Puvi wrote: configure: error: forced unwind support is required See this thread: http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-hackers/2004-July/001835.html The problem seems to lie in the way your host system is set up, though after reading through that thread, I'm not sure if the exact

Re: Handling Hotpluggable/Dynamic Devices

2005-04-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Andrew Benton wrote: Sorry if this has been covered already, but I'm just looking at the page 7.4. Device and Module Handling on an LFS System in Linux From Scratch - Version 6.1-testing-20050401 Chapter 7. Setting Up System Bootscripts It has a section 7.4.3. Handling Hotpluggable/Dynamic Device

Re: udev warning?

2005-04-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Allard Welter wrote: At the end of the udev install it mutters: killall udevd udevd: no process killed make: [install] Error 1 (ignored) Obviously this is harmless, but perhaps somewhat disconcerting to someone doing this the first time? Perhaps. And noted. Thanks. -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfro

Re: grammar section 7.4

2005-04-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Allard Welter wrote: Section 7.4, last sentence (grammar and spelling): in negligable -> is negligible > Section 7.4.1, second paragraph (tense): Last two sentences should be past tense again (from: The devfs file system also suffers from race ...) unless of course these problems are still manife

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would really like to find the problem and fix it however. Bruce, Did you ever get this sorted out? Just curious. -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: As an interesting note, from vim, do a :help Linux-backspace That is exactly what I am running into. Do you have a /etc/sysconfig/console file? Or did you leave it alone? Guess I'm wondering if you have a keymap that needs fixing as is mentioned here: http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Mine's 0177 here. Is it maybe worth comparing config.log's offline? Matt. Likewise. -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.1-testing issues

2005-04-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: My typo. My fault. Sorry for all the effort. :(( I enjoyed it. I learned some stuff from this thread. And it's nice to see I'm not the only one that makes silly mistakes. ;) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev

LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-15 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
a few other general-use notes there. Sound ok? Any ideas or suggestions as far as that goes? Thanks, -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Chapter 1.1. How to Build...

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
text needs to be changed. It's been changed to dynamic builds on the first pass to avoid a strip bug. We need to make an entry in bugzilla about it... -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the

Re: LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Perhaps it doesn't even need its own page (at least with the next release or two) since not every release will be a printed book. A good summary of the cd and a link to the cd's homepage would be fine, perhaps in the 'How to Build an LFS System' section? -- Jeremy Huntwork

Re: LFS 6.1 and the next gen of the LiveCD

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I suppose that would be fine, though I still would like to see a brief summary about it. Oh, and by summary, I really just mean the purpose of the cd - what it does and why it exists. Just to give the users a reason for coming to look at the cd and its independant page

Re: Ready for gcc-4 & cleaning up binutils source delete or not.

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Utley wrote: But there's still the lengthy community decision process to deal with before it makes it into rendered XML. That was the whole crux of the Unstable branch of LFS, so those of us who were interested in playing with that stuff could do so easily. Now that's gone :( And the s

Re: Ready for gcc-4 & cleaning up binutils source delete or not.

2005-04-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Um. No... there's still the trunk branch Did I just say 'trunk branch'? Ugh. Someone slap me upside the head please... -- Jeremy H. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Planning for Cross-LFS/Multi-Architecture 7.x Release

2005-04-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
these comments don't come as a huge shock to the rest of the devs, but just reading Jim's comments and thinking on how this will affect the shape and direction of LFS and its related projects - I'm thinking maybe we need to give some serious thought to avoiding those pitfalls

Re: Planning for Cross-LFS/Multi-Architecture 7.x Release

2005-04-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: In fact, unless there is any technical benefit to rebooting into a fresh kernel before chapter 6 on matching arch pairs, I think I'd rather see the book continue to chroot by default and assume that the user is building for the same arch, which would remove some o

Re: Planning for Cross-LFS/Multi-Architecture 7.x Release

2005-04-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 04/18/05 21:55 CST: Your message did not help me understand the changes, Ryan. It came off as a defensive, poorly phrased way of saying that building LFS on the x86 platform is for sissys. Ok, let's stop this right here. Are we really tha

Re: Planning for Cross-LFS/Multi-Architecture 7.x Release

2005-04-18 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
O Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:52:37PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy, this is a discussion. I was dismissed because I build > x86 "biddy" builds (whatever that is). You are not a moderator, > Jeremy, enter the discussion with something to contribute or let > us continue it without your interfere

Re: Planning for Cross-LFS/Multi-Architecture 7.x Release

2005-04-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Utley wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Cool! But don't make it a hint, make it part of the book. :-) Ideally, yes, it should be in the book. However, if for some reason that's unfeasable, because of limitations in the XML or whatever the case may be, then my feeling is it could be easily w

Re: bootscript logging conundrum

2005-04-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
James Robertson wrote: Education is always good IMO for the book. I always see this as a plus. I also wanted interactive boot. I would like to see this as a feature as well. James!! Good to see you're still around. I was getting worried. :) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratc

Reboot?

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
et Machine with New Kernel" - I know that's a bit long, but I'm open to suggestions. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Reboot?

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Boot Target System. I like this one :) Thanks -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Reboot?

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
TheOldFellow wrote: It's not a reboot, it's a boot, after a lot of faffing around to get it on the right disk. Right - I think in some circumstances it could be a reboot, but often it wouldn't be. You could still choose to reboot when building a x86 > x86... -- Jerem

Cross-LFS gcc-3.4.3-posix-1.patch

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
gestion to unpack just the core tarball? -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-LFS gcc-3.4.3-posix-1.patch

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ut the separate tarballs and just keep it to the one full package. Unless anyone has any objections, I'll be doing that shortly. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: cross-lfs book: Ch 6.4. GCC-3.4.3

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
x27; \ gcc/Makefile.in This sets the directory searched by the fixincludes process for system headers, so it won't look at the hosts. This can go just after the cppdefaults edit Done, thanks. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: glibc testsuite in lfs-testing

2005-04-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: I don't hear any objections, I'm going to merge it into testing as well. I object to objections!! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-LFS build: Got some wired error while "make install-headers" pahse of glibc.

2005-04-29 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
-lfs you can always try to decipher Ryan Oliver's scripts yourself: svn co svn://be-linux.org/cross-lfs/cross-lfs/trunk cross-lfs -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-LFS 5.10. Glibc-2.3.5 typo?

2005-04-29 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Erik-Jan wrote: Hi there, In cross-LFS, chapter 5.10 Glibc-2.3.5, configure, the book says: --host=${LFS_HOST} --build=${LFS_TARGET} Shouldn't that be the other way around? --host=${LFS_TARGET} --build=${LFS_HOST} You are correct, and it has been fixed, sorry for the delay. -- Jeremy Hun

Re: New Cross-LFS book - what about the printed version?

2005-04-29 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Norman J Heckscher wrote: steve crosby wrote: > The question is, with the new multi-choice cross-lfs book being worked > on, how are we planning on producing a hardcopy version? Questions > regarding the "linear" flow of the book are resolved by using smart > XML processing, but I've yet to see

Re: cross-lfs: small possible purity-issue with libgcc_s

2005-05-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
implied, likely because I haven't done any other cross-compiling on this machine save for what the cross-lfs book does. I'm not sure that this is a major concern - however I too would prefer to see that it *always* find the libgcc_s.so in /cross-tools I'll add your sed into the n

cross-lfs - booting on target machine

2005-05-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
e are likely to be different opinions on this one, but I wanted to put this forward for comments. Personally, it would make me feel much more comfortable with where we're leading the reader. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Successful Build of Cross-LFS

2005-05-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
at it will answer a few questions about what cross-lfs is and aims to be, making it possible for more to get involved or interested in the book, offer comments, suggestions, etc. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ U

Re: news for newbies?

2005-05-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ed on. See the other thread I just started, "Successful Build of Cross-LFS" -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Successful Build of Cross-LFS

2005-05-04 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ts added to the auto-render scripts alongside the other LFS books. Test the builds, submit errors, suggestions, etc. Thanks! -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Successful Build of Cross-LFS

2005-05-04 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
right now, there wouldn't be much information in the book to help you with x86_64, but that's just about next on our list of things to implement. Thus, we'll need the help of testers and people who have already successfully built on x86_64. HTH, -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfr

Rendering of multi-arch books

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ts? Thanks, -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Rendering of multi-arch books

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
M.Canales.es wrote: El Viernes, 6 de Mayo de 2005 17:34, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: Nothing impossible, I think, but very difficult to implement. Ok. Thanks Manuel for responding on that. :) Perhaps it's best then, to leave this idea to mature for a while and re-visit it once we have the

Cross-LFS 64-bit decisions

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
u have an opinion or comment on the above, *please* reply here. We *need* your feedback in order to make a decision. Thanks! -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-LFS 64-bit decisions

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: So, in a nutshell, my opinion is that we should do multilib as a default for 64-bit archs with /lib and /lib64 directories. Care to explain the basis on which you're forming that opinion for those of us paupers not able to afford such e

Re: Cross-LFS 64-bit decisions

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
M.Canales.es wrote: Is there some "de facto" standard used by commercial distros? Not sure. I just grabbed a gentoo stage3 tarball for amd64 and it seems they have it layed out like this: /lib -> /lib64 /lib32 /lib64 /usr/lib -> lib64 /usr/lib32 /usr/lib64 -- Jeremy

Re: lfs & ppc

2005-05-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ng Virtual Kernel File Systems" the part with creating the directories is missing. Please add 'mkdir -p $LFS/{proc,sys}' to the document. Fixed. The book is rendering now, so if you refresh that page in a few minutes, you should see the change. Thanks for the report. -

LFS Editor's Manual

2005-05-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
for others to review it and comment where appropriate. Matt, Gerard, any objections? -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS Editor's Manual

2005-05-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Matt, Gerard, any objections? None at all, it's been on my TODO for ages, so I'd be glad for anyone to commit anything to it at the moment :) Great. :) Ok, just committed my changes and will start looking at the text. (Commit was too lar

Re: LFS Editor's Manual

2005-05-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
M.Canales.es wrote: Many thanks for start that work :-) No problem, I sure could use your help though ;) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: lfs & ppc

2005-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
sting where necessary, this ppc book is fairly new. I'll look over your comments and make the changes as I have a free minute. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-LFS 64-bit decisions

2005-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
o, I hope. Sounds fair enough... Though if we have a multilib book and a uni-arch book, we can cater for both straight64 and multilib... Let me get at least the first way down and in book form and we'll see what happens after that. ;) Can't really comment on your XML ideas because I&#x

Re: LFS Editor's Manual

2005-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
here. Matt, Gerard, can you guys look over what I have there and start making edits or, at the very least, post changes here so I can make them? Again, the book is rendered here for your convenience: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/editor-manual/ Thanks, -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://

Copyright policy on patches

2005-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later # version. # --- T2-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- Thanks, -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linu

Re: lfs & ppc

2005-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
l the horizontal and the vertical! (and the mini!) :D -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS Editor's Manual

2005-05-09 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
described there. If you want, I can describe the current layout, etc. Sounds good to me. :) Thanks, Justin. -- Jeremy Huntwork. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Multi-arch/Cross-lfs discussion -- Book Structuring

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
hough. I, for one, would like to see the cross-lfs book take this type of layout. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-lfs question

2005-05-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
. --disable-multilib? or --enable-multilib=no? Is there a difference? -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross-lfs question

2005-05-11 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
). The other is the set of commands to run if one of those args is passed. These expressions receive an $enableval variable. If --disable-X is passed, then $enableval is equal to no. If --enable-X=blah is passed, then $enableval is equal to blah. Nice. Thanks for the explanation, Bryan. :) -- Jeremy

Use of Variables in Cross-LFS

2005-05-13 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
-m32 tag appended to the CC variable. It was thought that if we could have the user define the gcc tags needed to build for 32 or 64 in the book for each arch, we could generalize the pages more and keep it less arch specific. How does the community feel about this? -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http

Re: Use of Variables in Cross-LFS

2005-05-13 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
on't see why we couldn't do that. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

New livecd

2005-05-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hey all, I've just put up a new livecd iso. This is version x86-6.1-1-pre3. There are still a few known missing items that we will put in the next iso, and hopefully that one will be a release candidate. However, there are some substantially new features with this cd, so we wanted to give the

Re: New livecd

2005-05-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.1-1.pre3.iso Grr. A small typo in that url above: Should be: ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.1-1-pre3.iso -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: some problems during cross-lfs (book) build)

2005-05-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jim/Jeremy, could you audit all occurences of 'sed' prior to chapter 6.17 (sed-4.1.4 installation) and remove the '-i' flag please? Either that or we need to have modern 'sed' built really early on. I'll keep that in mind and work it in as I make other edits, if that'

Re: some problems during cross-lfs (book) build)

2005-05-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
ention, I'll fix it in just a minute. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: some problems during cross-lfs (book) build)

2005-05-22 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Actually, we do have it correct, (look at the sparc64 book), but apparently the x86 book was mangled a little bit with our recent re-structuring. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I'll fix it in just a minute. There. Take a look: http://linuxfromscratc

/dev/mouse symlink and the udev rules file [Was 'Re: r175 - trunk' in the livecd list]

2005-05-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Well then, we need to fix the LFS rules file because the cd just uses the default rules from that. No changes have been made. Hmm, kinda shot myself in the foot there didn't I! bash-3.00$ ls -l /dev/input/* crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 20

Re: continue batle with cross-lfs :)

2005-05-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
John Profic wrote: I'm continue trying to build lfs by intructions from cross-lfs on x86_64. Currently I finish temp-tools part, and have some notices: 1) Gcc, compiled by instructions from cross-lfs-x86 uses /lib64 even build with enable-multilib=no, so no one just compiled program cannot run

Re: Do we need Flex??

2005-05-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
LFS without flex and build as many BLFS packages as possible too. Perhaps give that new BLFS profile for nALFS a test all at once. :) -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: continue batle with cross-lfs :)

2005-05-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
John Profic wrote: Sorry, for confusion, but I mean book titled i386/x64_64 not standalone x86_64 (which I notice is *broken* :)) You mean this one? http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/cross-lfs/x86/ If so, the title for that one is 'Intel/AMD x86' and it's assumed that you're building 32-

Re: Do we need Flex??

2005-05-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: There are more developers for LFS than for BLFS, but the package count is about 6 to 1 in favor of BLFS. Actually, I don't think there are more for LFS atm. But your point is still valid. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: fsf ? binutils

2005-05-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Jensen wrote: I'm guessing current development has moved to fsf, but the download link is still to kernel.org which i think is hjl? It should be fixed? Fixed. Thanks for that, David. -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: In an attempt to get this info both archived, and presented to the larger community, I am writing up a synopsis of ideas that have been floating around on IRC as to how to handle the chroot/reboot phase of the cross-lfs book. I will list them and give a brief pro/con for each as I

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jim Gifford wrote: Matt, that was one of the purposes of the cross-lfs was the multi-architecture build, the reboot section is needed. I have it working and have been making the changes. It's just at the reboot point where there seems to be an issue. I think that's what he was saying - Keep i

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
TheOldFellow wrote: > I must start by saying that I have not been interested enough in this thread to have read every contribution in detail. Having built a couple of POX86S (plain old X86 system) with cross-lfs instructions, I've decided to take a copy of the latest svn non-cross-lfs book and

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