Does GCC compile option ---with-local-prefix still work?

2006-02-21 Thread William Zhou
seems this option is not processed. Is there something I missed? Regards, William Zhou -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Binutils-2.16.1-pass1

2006-02-22 Thread William Zhou
# Adjusting the Toolchain # Tcl-8.4.12 # Expect-5.43.0 # DejaGNU-1.4.4 # GCC-4.0.2 - Pass 2 # Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 2 Between toolchain adjustment and the 2nd pass of binutils, there are five packages including binutils itself get complied. If the ld were not replaced, it would search librari

Re: Does GCC compile option ---with-local-prefix still work?

2006-02-22 Thread William Zhou
Thanks for the hint, I will have a look at it. William Zhou Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/21/06, William Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The configuration switch --with-local-prefix seems to be redundant in GCC package. But after searching through the whole config scri

Re: /tools/bin/env: no such file or directory

2006-03-07 Thread William Zhou
Hi, GCC is installed beforehand and the specs file should be something like /tools/lib/gcc/.../specs instead of /usr/lib/gcc/***/specs. Make sure you have a correct PATH set. William Zhou Dominic Ringuet wrote: Simply reporting so nobody else wastes time on this. May be it could be

udev branch. package udev.

2006-04-05 Thread William Zhou
d" not "to aide". Thanks for the great work. William Zhou -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Adding newer headers to llh (Was Re: merging udev_update branch)

2006-04-12 Thread William Zhou
Jim Gifford wrote: Another option here is to use the headers package I've been working with a lot of people. It compiles a base LFS and CLFS with no issues at all.http://ftp.jg555.com/headers/linux-headers-2.6.16.2.tar.bz2, or roll your own by using http://ftp.jg555.com/headers/headers.

Re: udev branch. package udev.

2006-04-14 Thread William Zhou
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Archaic wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:57:12PM +0100, William Zhou wrote: "Create some rules that work around broken sysfs attribute creation timing in linux-2.6.15:" This is still in. Either it needs to be pulled, or the version needs to refer to

Re: My take on directory creation

2006-04-15 Thread William Zhou
package installation. In LFS, the user is root:root and the umask is defined as 022. Everything is ready. IMHO, using install is unnecessary for a directory set up. William Zhou -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

Re: Reinstalling Readline

2006-04-16 Thread William Zhou
M.Canales.es wrote: El Domingo, 16 de Abril de 2006 01:08, M.Canales.es escribi�: A similar issue when reinstalling Module-Init-Tools. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1771 execute "make moveold" before "make install" does the job. William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

Re: LFS vs BLFS -- udev rules

2006-04-21 Thread William Zhou
roups and gives everyone a full compliment of users/groups to start with. I prefer the CLFS way and I don't have to worry about the user/group management any more. It is nice to include some common software users in the LFS/CLFS, like svn, apache, samba, clamav, distccd. etc. William Zhou

Re: LFS vs BLFS -- udev rules

2006-04-21 Thread William Zhou
Archaic wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:55:25PM +0100, William Zhou wrote: I prefer the CLFS way and I don't have to worry about the user/group management any more. Which is precisely why I don't like it. You should have to worry about it if the goal is education. Then you can

Re: LFS vs BLFS -- udev rules

2006-04-21 Thread William Zhou
Jim Gifford wrote: We should be providing all the users and groups and let the people choose what they want to remove. Instead of just giving them the bare minimum. We need to provide a fully functional system, not a half-baked one. Exactly. We had a same point. :). William Zhou -- http

Re: New server details

2006-04-29 Thread William Zhou
M.Canales.es wrote: El S醔ado, 29 de Abril de 2006 18:40, Gerard Beekmans escribi�: Intel Pentium D @ 3.0 GHz 2 GB RAM Dual 160 GB SATA hard drives A very nice beast ;-) With Xen, it runs Windows too. (Though we won't do it ,,do we?) William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: Glibc will fail to compile in chapter 6

2006-05-22 Thread William Zhou
Ismael Luceno wrote: I noticed that in the chapter 6, glibc-2.3.6 will fail to compile, because the gcc specs patch is preventing glibc from including the kernel headers at /usr/include, adding the option --with-headers should solve the problem. You must have applied the wrong patch then.

/var/log/btmp permission problem.

2005-04-08 Thread William Zhou
Hi, I got time and read the log files. I found out that sshd keeps complianting about the permission of file /var/log/btmp. The message read as "Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp." After changing to 640, it stops complianting. The LFS book does not specify it clearly and

lib lib32 lib64 in LFS 7 x86_64_multilib

2005-10-13 Thread William Zhou
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/cross-lfs/x86_64-64/ Hi, I finished this build several days ago and started BLFS. However, the /lib is actually for lib32 instead of lib64. I believe the system tends to run in 64 bit. So all the libraries in BLFS have to go to /lib64. This is not as e

User lfs is more than optional.

2005-11-17 Thread William Zhou
I have been using LFS for more than a year's time and it is great. One of my friend started LFS several days ago and got an error when adjusting the toolchain( 5.7 ). The problem was that the gcc specs path was pointed to the host's one. It took me me a while to figure out that he ignored the crea

User lfs is more than optional.

2005-11-17 Thread William Zhou
> > And lose the excellent lesson your friend learned from this? :) We > cannot be liable for people ignoring large chunks of the book. I agreed with you. In 6.5, Creating directories. You don't have to have the /usr/local/game. If it is only a recommendation, it should not affect the LFS itself.