Re: minimum requirements

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Staub
Mezlo wrote: Is there a list of the minimum requirements for a host system to successfully compile the packages from LFS? More specifically, what packages (and minimum versions) need to be installed on the existing host? The reason I'm asking is I'm attempting to do an LFS compile on my Plays

minimum requirements

2005-12-04 Thread Mezlo
Is there a list of the minimum requirements for a host system to successfully compile the packages from LFS? More specifically, what packages (and minimum versions) need to be installed on the existing host? The reason I'm asking is I'm attempting to do an LFS compile on my Playstation 2, which i

Re: livecd

2005-12-04 Thread Dhaval Motghare
Hello all, There had been a very strong reaction from the LFS community. So i should like to requote my statements. What i meant was the whole idea of customizing the linux system sucks(before screaming at me please read the whole mail first). Well to begin with i am a strong supporter of open

Re: UTF-8 with LFS?

2005-12-04 Thread Digimag
> Andrew Benton wrote: > No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're > interested, try Alexander Patrakov's UTF-8 version > of the LFS book > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/ Thank you for this link. > But you sent this message in charset=ISO-8859-1 ? Yes, but it's jus

Re: annexc.out - ignoring error

2005-12-04 Thread thorsten
Jeremy Henty wrote: > I compiled Linux From Scratch and all I got was this lousy command > line! Some like it lousy! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: annexc.out - ignoring error

2005-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Jeremy Henty wrote: Yes, this particular test is expected to fail, and it will *not* cause the whole testsuite to end with make: *** [check] Error 2 If you see that, one or more of the tests really failed. That's useful! It would be nice if the book documented that (a)

More Interesting Links?

2005-12-04 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Sun, Dec 04 2005 : 12:47:36, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Digimag wrote: >> It's really impossible to have Unicode on my LFS distribution? > >No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're interested, try Alexander >Patrakov's UTF-8 version of the LFS book >http://www.linuxfr

Re: UTF-8 with LFS?

2005-12-04 Thread Jaqui Greenlees
--- Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Digimag wrote: > > It's really impossible to have Unicode on my LFS > distribution? > > No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're > interested, try Alexander Patrakov's UTF-8 version > of the LFS book > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~al

Re: annexc.out - ignoring error

2005-12-04 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:59:56PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > >I'm in Chapter 6.11.1 and the glibc test script gives me: > > > >make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) > > > > [grumpy mode] What is it about '(ignored)' that y

RE: UTF-8 with LFS?

2005-12-04 Thread Mike Clawson
> Digimag wrote: > > It's really impossible to have Unicode on my LFS distribution? > > No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're interested, > try Alexander Patrakov's UTF-8 version of the LFS book http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/ I would like to try this also, s

Re: UTF-8 with LFS?

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Benton
Digimag wrote: It's really impossible to have Unicode on my LFS distribution? No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're interested, try Alexander Patrakov's UTF-8 version of the LFS book http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/ Unfortunatly I always use French, English

UTF-8 with LFS?

2005-12-04 Thread Digimag
Hello, In the chapter 6.11, it says: « LFS should not be used in locales that utilize multibyte character sets (including UTF-8) or right-to-left writing order. Numerous unofficial and unstable patches are required to fix these problems, and it has been decided by the LFS developers not to suppor