Re: LFS 6.4 Book HTML

2009-04-03 Thread genericmaillists
On Friday 03 April 2009 23:13:19 Chris Staub wrote: > Jason Erickson wrote: > > I've been using this for the past week learning about linux and > > the installs and it has been a great tool. I want to first > > thank you for offering this book and helping others learn how > > to build linux from s

Re: LFS 6.4 Book HTML

2009-04-03 Thread Jason Erickson
Yep...didnt see that page. Thanks Jason On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Chris Staub wrote: > Jason Erickson wrote: >> I've been using this for the past week learning about linux and the >> installs and it has been a great tool.  I want to first thank you for >> offering this book and helping oth

Re: LFS 6.4 Book HTML

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Staub
Jason Erickson wrote: > I've been using this for the past week learning about linux and the > installs and it has been a great tool. I want to first thank you for > offering this book and helping others learn how to build linux from > scratch to make our own custom installs. > > I did notice a fe

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > If you want, you can install the package manager as a package > controlled by the package manager. Since the package manager in the > package user's approach does not have any build dependencies (only > run-time dependencies) it can be the first package to be installed

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > > One slightly confusing point, though, is why the package management > tools don't get installed using the package user philosophy. Why > aren't the tools themselves installed into the chroot environment > using the temporary tools in /tools?

Re: binutils pass 1, CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/"

2009-04-03 Thread Jack Stone
Tomas Klacko wrote: >> You need to compile everything with >> lib-path as /usr/lib etc so that we can compile gcc-pass1 >> against these binutils, (if I understand correctly this part >> does not need -B). >> > > Do you have any pointers on where to find out more about the lib-path? > My curre

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Support wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> That's what I mentioned in the first message, which I didn't make >> clear, I guess. In between Chapters 5 and 6, one would >> build & install in /tools a temporary copy of the manager. Then, after >> the initial setup in Chapter 6, the first package built &

Re: LFS 6.4 Book HTML

2009-04-03 Thread genericmaillists
On Friday 03 April 2009 14:03:28 Jason Erickson wrote: > For section 5.21 Gawk-3.1.6 There seems to be a formatting > issuehere is what the book says: > Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the > test suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools > here in this chapter. T

LFS 6.4 Book HTML

2009-04-03 Thread Jason Erickson
I've been using this for the past week learning about linux and the installs and it has been a great tool. I want to first thank you for offering this book and helping others learn how to build linux from scratch to make our own custom installs. I did notice a few things going through it that I t

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Support
Mike McCarty wrote: > That's what I mentioned in the first message, which I didn't make > clear, I guess. In between Chapters 5 and 6, one would > build & install in /tools a temporary copy of the manager. Then, after > the initial setup in Chapter 6, the first package built & intalled > would be t

HAL <-> Xorg troubles

2009-04-03 Thread michael lang
Hey, I've run into a problem with HAL and Xorg. I've built Xorg with HAL support, and it expects that HAL has a mouse listed with `hal-device`. But it doesn't, which means that with the default configuration(AllowEmptyInput on) I don't have any mouse and keyboard. If I override that option to off,

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Support wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> That's what I'm asking about. I guess I wasn't clear. I don't understand >> why the first package installed in Chapter 6, per the Hint, is >> libc-headers instead of the package manager. ISTM that the first >> package installed in the "real" system, that is t

Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Support
Mike McCarty wrote: > That's what I'm asking about. I guess I wasn't clear. I don't understand > why the first package installed in Chapter 6, per the Hint, is > libc-headers instead of the package manager. ISTM that the first > package installed in the "real" system, that is the chroot environment