Re: [lfs-support] my message is awaiting moderator approval

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I sent an email to lfs-support but it's awaiting moderator approval. > It had an attachment, I think it was less than 1MB. Any ideas on when > or if the email will be approved? I really need some help here guys, > thanks. Put the file into pastebin.com and send us the lin

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-17 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/17/2012 02:04 PM, Richard Melville wrote: Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and changed permissions but when I run:- su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes -k check || t

Re: [lfs-support] I post

2012-08-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:41:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Garrett Gaston wrote: > > > > I sent and email to the lfs support mail list over an hour ago and it > > has never appeared in my inbox, is this normal? > > I don't know about hotmail, but gmail does not echo back messages you send. >

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/17/2012 9:12 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most things, you would be interested in getting a "i386-pc-linu

[lfs-support] my message is awaiting moderator approval

2012-08-17 Thread Garrett Gaston
I sent an email to lfs-support but it's awaiting moderator approval. It had an attachment, I think it was less than 1MB. Any ideas on when or if the email will be approved? I really need some help here guys, thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

[lfs-support] glibc 2.14.1 check fails

2012-08-17 Thread Mike Johnston
Hello,  I'm building LFS 7.1 from the book.  I'm running the tests on glib and I'm getting a setlocale failed error in bug-regex32. Any ideas on this ?  Ok to proceed? Thanks in advance, Mike-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/f

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Lewis Pike
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Lewis Pike wrote: >> Digging a bit deeper into the test suits logs does indeed reveal a >> difference of 18 seconds on the time stamps. I checked and 18 leap >> seconds did occur between the aforementioned dates. >> >> I tried duplicating the test errors by building and testin

Re: [lfs-support] I post

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: > > I sent and email to the lfs support mail list over an hour ago and it > has never appeared in my inbox, is this normal? I don't know about hotmail, but gmail does not echo back messages you send. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. > > I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and > changed permissions but when I run:- > > su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes -k check || true" > > It retur

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > > > I do have a question, however, regarding vulnerabilities in old packages. > > Does anybody know of a good website that lists vulnerabilities as they > are > > found. That would enable us to replace just those packages in

[lfs-support] I post

2012-08-17 Thread Garrett Gaston
I sent and email to the lfs support mail list over an hour ago and it has never appeared in my inbox, is this normal? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> On a fresh LFS svn system, I can do >> >> $ TZ=EST date;date;date -u >> Thu Aug 16 23:56:26 EST 2012 >> Fri Aug 17 04:56:26 GMT 2012 >> Fri Aug 17 04:56:51 UTC 2012 >> >> My understanding is that POSIX ignores le

[lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and changed permissions but when I run:- su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes -k check || true" It returns:- bash: make: command not found.

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > On a fresh LFS svn system, I can do > > $ TZ=EST date;date;date -u > Thu Aug 16 23:56:26 EST 2012 > Fri Aug 17 04:56:26 GMT 2012 > Fri Aug 17 04:56:51 UTC 2012 > > My understanding is that POSIX ignores leap seconds, and TZ setting

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck at Bash 5.16

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: >> Dear, you do realize that if you had read the page describing the >> host requirements first, you would not have landed in this >> predicament? And even so, you do realize that most of the people on >> the list prefer that you do a little more to help yourself first >> before asking

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: >> That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and >> how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most >> things, you would be interested in getting a "i386-pc-linux-gnu" >> targ

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:42:26AM +0300, Markku Pesonen wrote: >> >> I think the problem may lie in the way LFS installs the tzdata package. >> Glibc 2.15 (and earlier) installed timezone data without leap second >> information in /usr/share/zoneinfo and /usr/share/zoneinfo/pos

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > On another subject, and a minor issue, the tzdata package in the > SVN-20120816 build instructions is version "e" but the package downloaded > from the LFS repository is version "c" The best place to get the tz data is http://www.iana.org//time-zones/repository/releases

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck at Bash 5.16

2012-08-17 Thread Eric Plummer
On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:18, Mikie wrote: >> Dear, you do realize that if you had read the page describing the host >> requirements first, you would not have landed in this predicament? And even >> so, you do realize that most of the people on the list prefer that you do a >> little more to help

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck at Bash 5.16

2012-08-17 Thread Mikie
>Dear, you do realize that if you had read the page describing the host >requirements first, you would not have landed in this predicament? And even >so, you do realize that most of the people on the list prefer that you do a >little more to help yourself first before asking for help? It's not h

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: > That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and > how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most > things, you would be interested in getting a "i386-pc-linux-gnu" > target triplet, which might

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > I do have a question, however, regarding vulnerabilities in old packages. > Does anybody know of a good website that lists vulnerabilities as they are > found. That would enable us to replace just those packages in old builds >

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:42:26AM +0300, Markku Pesonen wrote: > > I think the problem may lie in the way LFS installs the tzdata package. > Glibc 2.15 (and earlier) installed timezone data without leap second > information in /usr/share/zoneinfo and /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix (why > two copies of

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/17/2012 4:26 AM, Peter Dickinson wrote: I'm building LFS 7.1. I'm building it using a host machine that is a current model, but I would like the LFS build to be compatible with as wide a range of x86 32-bit computers as possible. I've noticed that the build process appears to be sensitiv

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
> Hi! > > > > I had been using LFS for half a year until I realized that keeping it > > up-to-date is a pain. I feel I'd like to have some hard work again:), > > so now I'm trying to upgrade that system. As far as I know It could > > be a failure, but definately not an easy task... I'm confused abo

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: > >> Just went through this step in linux mint 32bit in vmware and found > >>> no issues. > >>> > >>> That's because it's an intermittent bug. I've just had the same > >>> problem using Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit. Sometimes the error > >>> message appears and sometimes it

[lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Dickinson
I'm building LFS 7.1. I'm building it using a host machine that is a current model, but I would like the LFS build to be compatible with as wide a range of x86 32-bit computers as possible. I've noticed that the build process appears to be sensitive to the processor type of the host machine, and

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Markku Pesonen
Lewis Pike wrote: > Digging a bit deeper into the test suits logs does indeed reveal a > difference of 18 seconds on the time stamps. I checked and 18 leap > seconds did occur between the aforementioned dates. > > I tried duplicating the test errors by building and testing > e2fsprogs-1.42.5 on a