Re: cdrkit, yet another cdrecord fork

2006-09-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: I suspect it'd be quicker just starting from scratch Here's a wonderful snippet from the latest release of cdrtools So, another case of NIH syndrome. Rather than report bugs/offer patches to existing projects (tar vs. star, make vs. smake, etc.) he goes and rei

Re: cdrkit, yet another cdrecord fork

2006-09-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: Debian has now forked cdrkit (get it from your local debian pool, the diff on top of pre3 only affects some of the debian/ files). I wonder how long it'll take them to clean it up? I suspect it'd be quicker just starting from scratch (and just don't support anything that

Re: PHP compiling error?

2006-09-05 Thread Vladimir A. Pavlov
On Monday 04 September 2006 22:32, tom wrote: > In file included from > /sources/php-5.1.4/ext/mbstring/oniguruma/regerror.c:37: > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/varargs.h:4:2: error: > #error "GCC no longer implements ." > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/varargs.h:5:2: e

Re: Package users: wrapper script for mkdir

2006-09-05 Thread Matthias B.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:39:07 +0300 "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The addition of this feature is desired since the glibc 2.3.4 > installation (from LFS 6.1.1) calls mkdir with relative paths to create > directories in /usr/share/local. If you've followed the advice from the hint yo

Re: Package users: wrapper script for mkdir

2006-09-05 Thread Matthias B.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:39:07 +0300 "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The addition of this feature is desired since the glibc 2.3.4 > installation (from LFS 6.1.1) calls mkdir with relative paths You'll have a hard time convincing me of that. No glibc version I've ever installed did thi

cdrkit, yet another cdrecord fork

2006-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
As a user of architectures other than x86, cdrecord itself is a pain in the proverbial to build. I switched to dvdrtools-0.3.1 some months ago - works great provided I remember to specify speed, but the project seems to be inactive. Debian has now forked cdrkit (get it from your local debian po

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/4/06, Brandon Peirce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One _advantage_ of the coreutils version is that is implements a -c switch which the shadow version doesn't. (More about -c later.) The shadow version implements -c to pass a command. su would be pretty crippled without it. [06:59 AM [EMAI

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-05 Thread Angel Tsankov
> Throw an "exit" on the end of that, your root password on the front, giving: > START FILE > 123456 > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install > exit > END FILE > > Then simply call: > echo build-package-name.txt | su What will happen if I do not append an 'exit' at the end of the file?

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-05 Thread veritosproject
On 9/5/06, Angel Tsankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Throw an "exit" on the end of that, your root password on the front, giving: > START FILE > 123456 > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install > exit > END FILE > > Then simply call: > echo build-package-name.txt | su What will happen i

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-05 Thread Angel Tsankov
Throw an "exit" on the end of that, your root password on the front, giving: START FILE 123456 ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install exit END FILE Then simply call: echo build-package-name.txt | su What will happen if I do not append an 'exit' at the end of the file? -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: glibc make error in chapter 6

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Fanning
I think then that I will stay pure, even if laggard. 6.2 can wait. At least I am expanding my Linux skills as I go. When I decided to start this I was drawing on some rusty Unix recollections from 20+ years ago at university. Paul On 5-Sep-06, at 05:32, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Sep 04,

Re: glibc make error in chapter 6

2006-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:56:12PM -0400, Paul Fanning wrote: > > Thanks Ken, > > I did not realize I had fallen so far behind. As you can probably > guess, I have been progressing intermittently, and occasionally > backwards, using the LiveCD 6.1.1. I am now trying to figure out > whether