Re: LFS based distro and quasi-cross compiling.

2007-09-20 Thread Colin Dean
Joshua Shriver wrote: > Good Morning, > >I'm in the process of designing a small livecd based linux > distro for file recovery, and some other tools I haven't found in > other such distro's. I'm using LFS as learning tool and a basis for > my project. > > My main questions is, how d

Error while compiling Binutils-2.17

2007-09-20 Thread Althaf Backer
Dear LFS Im really thankful for creation of a concept like LFS. for me this is a great gift OK lets come to the point .. Details -- Book version:--6.3 Package section:--Binutils-2.17 Distro:--Slackware 12 Package section:--Binutils Section is the book:--Part III. Building

Re: LFS based distro and quasi-cross compiling.

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/20/07, Joshua Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My main questions is, how do you go about compiling for a general > CPU so it can be portable? My desktop machine is a P4 and since I dont > want the binaries to be P4 specific, figured I'd have to do something > like -arch=386 etc. Wha

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-20 Thread Martin McCourt
Hi Alexander, On 9/20/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't do this - it is a workaround. Xft fonts are beautiful by > default, but something went wrong on your system. You may also want to > start from scratch, using LFS-6.3 and BLFS SVN, because they contain a > lot

LFS based distro and quasi-cross compiling.

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua Shriver
Good Morning, I'm in the process of designing a small livecd based linux distro for file recovery, and some other tools I haven't found in other such distro's. I'm using LFS as learning tool and a basis for my project. My main questions is, how do you go about compiling for a general

RE: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem !

2007-09-20 Thread JBLinux
> Message du 20/09/07 14:05 > De : "Spahn, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : "JBLinux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "LFS Support List" > > Copie à : > Objet : RE: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem ! > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem !

2007-09-20 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JBLinux Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:44 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem ! Hi all. I'm building a LiveCD based on kernel 2.6.20, busybox 1.6.0 a

LFS/Busybox and user/group problem !

2007-09-20 Thread JBLinux
Hi all. I'm building a LiveCD based on kernel 2.6.20, busybox 1.6.0 and other tools that I need. My first step was to build a basic LiveCD : a bootable CD using Grub, the kernel 2.6 and busybox. With busybox 2.6.0 all work great EXCEPT a problem using user/group. The following comma