Re: Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-27 Thread DJ Lucas
Jeremy Henty wrote: > I'd always taken it for granted that m4, autoconf, automake etc. had > to be in LFS, but recently I thought "Hang on! The auto-tools are > *development* tools, not build tools. Building auto-tooled software > only requires a shell, make, sed etc. You don't need

Re: Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Henty wrote these words on 02/27/09 18:18 CST: > So, since creating an LFS system only requires building existing > software, why does it include the auto-tools? Could we not move them > to BLFS? What am I missing here? The 600 previous discussions about the same subject. Please re

Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-27 Thread Jeremy Henty
I'd always taken it for granted that m4, autoconf, automake etc. had to be in LFS, but recently I thought "Hang on! The auto-tools are *development* tools, not build tools. Building auto-tooled software only requires a shell, make, sed etc. You don't need autoconf and friends unless

Re: Grub: Error 21, Selected disk does not exist

2009-02-27 Thread Michael
> > I'm going through Linux From Scratch v6.4, and I'm on Chapter 8.4. > > Currently, > I'm running Linux completely off of an external hard drive, while I'm also > building my Linux From Scatch build onto a seperate partition on that disk. > The > laptop already has one hard drive in it, bu

Re: LFS 6.4 Chapter 6 Glibc Test errors

2009-02-27 Thread Aaron Schawalder
Ken Moffat wrote: > What results does your debian system produce for version-check from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html > and how do they compare to the versions listed on that page ? > > In particular, which kernel and which compiler version was used to >

Re: Grub: Error 21, Selected disk does not exist

2009-02-27 Thread Tobias Gasser
Michael schrieb: > I'm going through Linux From Scratch v6.4, and I'm on Chapter 8.4. > Currently, I'm running Linux completely off of an external hard drive, while > I'm also building my Linux From Scatch build onto a seperate partition on > that disk. The laptop already has one hard drive in