Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always > > backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should > > work on a glibc-2.3 system. > > > > Someone said it on a mailing list?

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, lot of times. If I remember correctly, my glibc-2.2 -> glibc-2.3 > was like that, and so were many glibc-2.3 upgrades. I take the first sentence back. I don't remember my glibc-2.2 -> glibc-2.3 upgrade (though I may have upgraded in

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew Benton
Tushar Teredesai wrote: I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should work on a glibc-2.3 system. Someone said it on a mailing list? Well, then it must be true :) (sorry for the FUD, I couldn't help it

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but have you actually tried to upgrade a glibc installation in-situ > (i.e. on the OS you're currently booted into)? I remember quite clearly > the effects that had when I accidentally replaced my host's glibc with > an LFS compiled

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > > For your current problem, one thing you could do is to use the > > following to install the new gcc: > > make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/gcc install > > This will install everything into a fakeroot /var/tmp/gcc. Now rem

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should work on a glibc-2.3 system. Yes, but have you actually tried to upgrade a glibc installation in-situ (i.e. on the OS you're currentl

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > As long as you are upgrading the toolchain packages (not downgrading) > > everything should be ok, especially if they have the same major (and > > minor version?) > > I think glibc is still an exception here, th

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: As long as you are upgrading the toolchain packages (not downgrading) everything should be ok, especially if they have the same major (and minor version?) I think glibc is still an exception here, though I wouldn't like to bet any amount of money on that! I do, howeve

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Jeremy Byron
Tushar Teredesai wrote: For your current problem, one thing you could do is to use the following to install the new gcc: make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/gcc install This will install everything into a fakeroot /var/tmp/gcc. Now remove the previous gcc version from the standard directories and then recur

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Removing any of the toolchain packages is a bad idea; if you want to > upgrade or alter their behaviour in any way, you should be rebuilding > LFS completely from the ground up. (Not quite true, I suppose, if you > follow BLFS' overwrite of

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Doug Ronne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lets say you wanted to re-compile and install your copy of gcc and you > didn't want some of the files lying around, maybe you didn't want some > ada compiler anymore or something, and you wanted to make sure that > you didn't have leftovers from

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Jeremy Byron
Doug Ronne wrote: Lets say you wanted to re-compile and install your copy of gcc and you didn't want some of the files lying around, maybe you didn't want some ada compiler anymore or something, and you wanted to make sure that you didn't have leftovers from the previous copy. How would you do t

oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Doug Ronne
Lets say you wanted to re-compile and install your copy of gcc and you didn't want some of the files lying around, maybe you didn't want some ada compiler anymore or something, and you wanted to make sure that you didn't have leftovers from the previous copy. How would you do that? The make insta

LFS LiveCD 6.2-pre1 Released

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Knierim
The LFS LiveCD team is is proud to release the 6.2-pre1 version of the LFS LiveCD. This version follows the current development versions of LFS and BLFS, to prepare for a later release. The LiveCD features updates to gcc (4.0.2), glibc (2.3.5), binutils (2.16.1) and many other packages. Sinc

Re[2]: shadow

2005-10-18 Thread jaca
Hello Luca, Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 6:11:15 PM, you wrote: LD> In section 6.54.2 there are instructions about LD> running the commands: LD> pwconv LD> grpconv LD> Did you already do that? LD> Luca LD> -- LD> http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support LD> FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: shadow

2005-10-18 Thread Luca Dionisi
In section 6.54.2 there are instructions about running the commands: pwconv grpconv Did you already do that? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: espgs

2005-10-18 Thread Doug Ronne
On 10/17/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 17:04 -0700, Doug Ronne wrote: > > has anyone compiled the esp ghostscript successfully with gcc4? > > Yes, I have. Didn't notice any issues whatsoever. I don't believe > I had Fortran installed at the time. I used GCC-4

Re: duble problem with sound card ?

2005-10-18 Thread sacarde
I tried to build module via82xx AC97 into kernel but the result it's the same alsaconf do not probe my soundcard and command: mpg123 x.mp3 require /dev/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Have you tried building the Alsa drivers into the kernel (not as a module)? > For what it's worth I don't have a

Re: hint on using the livecd 6.1 to make a lfs system (troubles)

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Staub
Ian Armstrong wrote: I had a look at the 'install-lfs-from-livecd.txt', and it looks quite useful. I haven't tried it yet, but I am in the middle of building version 6.1, and I will try it tomorrow. I would suggest that it be kept. Ian. Check out my first reply to this topic - it can be

Re: hint on using the livecd 6.1 to make a lfs system (troubles)

2005-10-18 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Tue, Oct 18 2005 : 05:47:23, Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ii > >I have seen several people atempt to use this hint and are having some >problems with it. somthing goes wrong with the setenv.sh. I am >wondering if somthing needs to b

Re: Evolution 2.4.1 contact list failure

2005-10-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 07:38 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Did you run make check, and did it pass all tests? Did you specify any > build options other than prefix in the configure for the app or the data > engine? Here is the configure options for Evolution Data Server: ./configure --prefix=

Re: Itables/firewall problem

2005-10-18 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:05:24PM +, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > > CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y > CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y > # CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE is not set Is masquerading needed? Are you using private IP's behind the NAT? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operat

Itables/firewall problem

2005-10-18 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Hi Following the firewall setup in BLFS 6.1, I've got a problem at boot time with 'nat' table support. All the options chosen for netfiltering are built into the kernel, i.e. I'm not loading any modules and I've disabled the loading of modules at the beginning of the itables start-up script.

shadow

2005-10-18 Thread jaca
Hi all I have some problems with shadow package. The package compiles without errors but passwd doesn't ask for password. It looks like it does nothing. The same problem is with login. How can i find the solution to correct this problem Regards Jacek Herold --

Re: duble problem with sound card ?

2005-10-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:10 +0200, sacarde wrote: > Hi, >I have installed dialog, now alsaconf work, but I dont find my soundcard > via82xx.. (with other distribution, ALSA contain my card !!) Is the kernel module built? For that chipset, I guess that's the one under "Device Drivers -> S

Re: duble problem with sound card ?

2005-10-18 Thread sacarde
Hi, today, I reboot LFS-system and I find no eth0 found no modules are loades when I run: modprobe -l result nothing but modules are in the same place... /lib/modules/kernel.../ecc what I wrong ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. for first problem I found I have not udev started i

Re: Evolution 2.4.1 contact list failure

2005-10-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:10 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Has anyone installed Evolution 2.4.1, and does it work OK for you? This > weekend I yanked out my Gnome install tree (yet again) and rebuilt it > with the latest 2.12.1 sources, followed by another fresh install of > Evolution. Just lik

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Richard A Downing
Tom wrote: > How do I correctly move the root partition to another partition? Im also > want to move /usr /var as well and probably /home > > I've not tried this, but I think it should work. Boot using something like this grub line: kernel (hd0,5)/boot/lfskernel-1.2.3 root=/dev/hda4 init=/bin/

Re: Radeon 9600 and DRI in Xorg

2005-10-18 Thread Vlastimil Krejcir
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Jeremy Byron wrote: David Lockwood wrote: Lastly, for the latest ATI driver (now fglrx_6_8_0-8.18.6-1.i386.rpm) I would really like to use the latest driver but the patches don't apply properly to this version. I'm not using a SMP machine/kernel and I'm not using a VIA-AM

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Lord
Hi, I do this procedure quite often. My Linux machine has a partition JUST for building new LFS versions. Once that is finished, I them move everything over to other partitons. Having a separate /boot partition is useful. My pc is partitoned thus: hda1 = /boot(small < 100Mb EXT) hda2 = s