Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Paul G Rogers
>> Why mess around with any patches at all? Or am I not getting the>> drift of your messages?>>If you don't have broadband or don't want to contribute to stressing the>servers, downloading kernel patches can be an attractive option. Instead>of dowloading 40MB you only download a few kB.The best I c

upgrading to LFS-6.2

2006-07-21 Thread alberto hernando
Hi.I have an LFS running. It's version 6.1.1. I'm quite happy with it, but I have a couple of issues. For example, I'd like to update glibc and add some locales (utf-8), install gcc-4 and a new udev. So, as LFS-6.2 has (will have, it's the same) all these things, I was thinking about updating the

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:08:36AM -0700, Paul G Rogers wrote: > Sorry, thought [2.6.] was understood. IIRC the full name is > patch-2.6.12-tar.bz2 from kernel.org, of course. That's the diff between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 . Not want you want, surely? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfroms

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Miguel Bazdresch
* Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-21 12:46]: > Paul G Rogers wrote these words on 07/20/06 21:38 CST: > > I've just installed 2.6.11.12 with LFS-6.1.1. I want to bring the kernel > > current. I thought patch-12 would be approproate but it had many rejects > > and I saw a few "reversed

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Paul G Rogers wrote these words on 07/20/06 21:38 CST: > I've just installed 2.6.11.12 with LFS-6.1.1. I want to bring the kernel > current. I thought patch-12 would be approproate but it had many rejects > and I saw a few "reversed or already applied" fly by. What's the > appropriate path to pa

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Paul G Rogers
>I am not sure what you mean by "patch-12". What exactly is that? Sorry, thought [2.6.] was understood. IIRC the full name is patch-2.6.12-tar.bz2 from kernel.org, of course. Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law

Glitches

2006-07-21 Thread Paul G Rogers
The book recommends building the first kernel without modules, which seems sensible. I made sure by disabling module support, which may have contributed to some of the glitches I'm reporting. Other than my "multiple sessions", I followed the book quite closely (cut & paste). I'm just beginning t

Re: GCC make test failure?

2006-07-21 Thread Kevin Walker
On 7/20/06, Kevin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the record I am using the LFS LiveCD 6.1.1-4 via VMware and book version 6.1.1 [snip] FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/20001226- 1.c -Os (test for excess errors) FAIL: gcc.c-torture /execute/va-arg-25.c execution, -Os Two failures isn't t