Re: ncurses libraries:why they are moved

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremy Utley
Andreas Fehr wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2005, 13:19, lin q (as lq) wrote: lq: I am in Chapter 6 and compiling ncurses. After "make install", lq: there are some instructions about moving the libncurses.so.5* from lq: /usr/lib to /lib. lq: lq: I wonder why it is wrong that these libraries are in /us

Re: One CD host distro known to work?

2005-05-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Phillip Fynan wrote: I'll try again with the LFS live cd, The one I have is scratched. Not able to download the iso and burn again? -- Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: One CD host distro known to work?

2005-05-10 Thread Phillip Fynan
I'm trying to find a distro that: fits on one cd and will build LFS out of the box. I have RedHat 9 (2.4 kernel, so forget it) VectorLinux (Slackware based, Doesn't like to build gcc. The tools for some reason are i486-pc-slackware.) Core (2.4 kernel, forget it.) Current Distro under the headlights

Re: routing/name resolution problem

2005-05-10 Thread mike
thorsten schrieb: Hello all, I have a lfs-router with two ethernet cards, which connects via pppoe on eth0 to my adsl provider. eth1 has 192.168.0.1/24, my private subnet. On the subnet is 192.168.0.3, named linux. Now the following problem arises and I have no clue what is wrong: With adsl dis

Re: ncurses libraries:why they are moved

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Fehr
On Tue, 10 May 2005, 13:19, lin q (as lq) wrote: > lq: I am in Chapter 6 and compiling ncurses. After "make install", > lq: there are some instructions about moving the libncurses.so.5* from > lq: /usr/lib to /lib. > lq: > lq: I wonder why it is wrong that these libraries are in /usr/lib? If >

RE: ncurses libraries:why they are moved

2005-05-10 Thread lin q
Sorry I did not mention that in my host Fedora Core -1, these libraries are in /usr/lib, not /lib. This is the reason I want to confirm this. Thanks. From: "lin q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LFS Support List To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: ncurses libraries:why they are moved Da

ncurses libraries:why they are moved

2005-05-10 Thread lin q
Hi, I am in Chapter 6 and compiling ncurses. After "make install", there are some instructions about moving the libncurses.so.5* from /usr/lib to /lib. I wonder why it is wrong that these libraries are in /usr/lib? If I do not do this, then when I compile some other application ncurses librari

Re: Ada option in compile ncurses

2005-05-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
lin q wrote: My question is does Ada get compiled in the 2nd build? No. Basically, the chapter 5 '--without-ada' option is a safeguard against those hosts that might have an ada compiler installed. By specifiying the option, we ensure that the ./configure script doesn't try to find an ada co

Ada option in compile ncurses

2005-05-10 Thread lin q
Hi, I wonder how to understand the difference of compiling ncurses on ada option. In "Constructing a temporary system", in building ncurses, the config option is like this, ./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite

Re: How to thoroughly test the LFS?

2005-05-10 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:00 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > ok, then let us reduce the range. how to verify the basic packages like > > binutils, glibc and gcc is correct? or 90% correct? as long as the test > > like "make check" or "make test" passed? > > > > Just because a p

Re: files transfer

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Benton
luis jure wrote: i have recently purchased a laptop with windows xp pre-installed (obviously...). for various reasons i haven't wiped it out yet to install linux. before i do that, i have some files that i need to transfer to and from my desktop, which has an oldish lfs 5.1 (plus much of blfs, of c

Re: How to thoroughly test the LFS?

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Ming Zhang wrote: ok, then let us reduce the range. how to verify the basic packages like binutils, glibc and gcc is correct? or 90% correct? as long as the test like "make check" or "make test" passed? Just because a package builds and passes all the tests doesn't tell you that it won't cause pro

Re: How to thoroughly test the LFS?

2005-05-10 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:21 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ming Zhang wrote: > > > > (ii) build _every_ blfs package you care about. > > > > > but one thing here is if you can build it, can you make sure it can run > > well? especially for some packages that come with no self check

Re: How to thoroughly test the LFS?

2005-05-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ming Zhang wrote: > > (ii) build _every_ blfs package you care about. > > > but one thing here is if you can build it, can you make sure it can run > well? especially for some packages that come with no self check option. > That's why I said every package you care about. I a

Re: Dependency list

2005-05-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:42:55AM -0500, Chris De Varennes enlightened us thusly > I was curious about something. If one wanted to create as inclusive a > BLFS system as possible (starting with an LFS 6.0 system and > installing basically everything in the BLFS 6.0 book that isn't > completely re

Re: routing/name resolution problem

2005-05-10 Thread Joel Miller
thorsten wrote: Joel Miller wrote: thorsten wrote: Hello all, I have a lfs-router with two ethernet cards, which connects via pppoe on eth0 to my adsl provider. eth1 has 192.168.0.1/24, my private subnet. On the subnet is 192.168.0.3, named linux. Now the following problem arises and I have no c

Re: Dependency list

2005-05-10 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:42 -0500, Chris De Varennes wrote: > I was curious about something. If one wanted to create as inclusive a > BLFS system as possible (starting with an LFS 6.0 system and installing > basically everything in the BLFS 6.0 book that isn't completely > redundant), has anyon

Re: One CD host distro known to work?

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Phillip Fynan wrote: I was wondering if anyone knows of a distribution that uses 1 cd and is known to work for building LFS. Thanks. I use Ubuntu. You need to apt-get install gcc, bison and flex so you need a network connection but it does the job for me -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis