Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 20, 2012, at 16:44 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > LiveCD which may need tweaking, especially with the kernel options. Mostly for hardware. Most drivers are modules. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] (no subject)

2012-09-20 Thread Mikie
>Did you remove backslashes at the end of lines? >It should look like below: >./configure --prefix=/usr \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ >... >Try just copy&paste from the book. -- Pozdrawiam, Tomasz Sekściński Israel, Those back-slashes mean "continue on the next line" ... so that you

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi William, Thank you very much for the updated LiveCD. I went to the link you provided and read that the updated version 6.3 is an experimental LiveCD which may need tweaking, especially with the kernel options. I am starting fresh with a distro build and would kindly like to know if this versio

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 20, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > Can you please tell me if the LFS LiveCD is still a valid tool to > utilize in learning the "how to" of building a linux distro. I read > that the LFS LiveCD is no longer supported and the LiveCD is not > available for version 7.0 and late

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
Ok Spiky, Thank you so much for the advice and suggestions. I will chime back in when I have another related question in regards to this thread. ..Thank you On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, spiky wrote: > On 20/09/12 18:55, Wally Lepore wrote: > > Hi Members, > > I do hope this is the corre

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.2 section 6.55 man-db

2012-09-20 Thread Israel Silberg
On Sep 20, 2012 9:44 PM, "Ken Moffat" wrote: > > O > Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:12:37PM +0300, Israel Silberg wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2012 4:09 PM, "Tomasz Sekściński" wrote: > > > > > > Dnia 2012-09-20, o godz. 16:03:03 > > > Israel Silberg napisał(a): > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm about to loo

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.2 section 6.55 man-db

2012-09-20 Thread Ken Moffat
O Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:12:37PM +0300, Israel Silberg wrote: > On Sep 20, 2012 4:09 PM, "Tomasz Sekściński" wrote: > > > > Dnia 2012-09-20, o godz. 16:03:03 > > Israel Silberg napisał(a): > > > > > Hi All, > > > I'm about to loose any hope of finishing this LFS build. > > > During the MAN-DB c

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread spiky
On 20/09/12 18:55, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Members, I do hope this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now and wou

[lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members, I do hope this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now and would like to utilize the LFS system to build a

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Whitequill Riclo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> I've already succeeded at building gmp, and mpc with in the gcc build >>> directory, I need to make mpfr, what do you suggest I do? >>> >>> Is there a way to just build the following code block; >> >> Needs #include

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Finally -- some recognition that there is a potential problem with this > build. I disagree that it "works okay for x86 and x86_64" because I > reported here that the MPC configure error appeared randomly on my x86_64 > build, as, indeed, others have. I've already sugge

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.2 section 6.55 man-db

2012-09-20 Thread Israel Silberg
On Sep 20, 2012 4:09 PM, "Tomasz Sekściński" wrote: > > Dnia 2012-09-20, o godz. 16:03:03 > Israel Silberg napisał(a): > > > Hi All, > > I'm about to loose any hope of finishing this LFS build. > > During the MAN-DB compilation in section 6.55 > > in the section: > > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr

Re: [lfs-support] Booting from USB and root partition uuid

2012-09-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:37:08PM +0200, Tomasz Sekściński wrote: > > The system boots properly from USB stick but on another > laptop root partition /dev/sdb1 isn't correct anymore. > I could make moore entries in grub.cfg with sdc1, sdd1 etc. of course > but i don't like this solution. > I am t

Re: [lfs-support] Booting from USB and root partition uuid

2012-09-20 Thread xinglp
2012/9/20 Tomasz Sekściński : > Hi, > > I copied entire LFS instalation from hdd to USB stick and installed > grub into USB. > > My grub.cfg contains entry: > > menuentry 'GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.6-lfs-7.1' > { > set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos1)' > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root > f53d22a3-c6

Re: [lfs-support] (no subject)

2012-09-20 Thread Tomasz Sekściński
Dnia 2012-09-20, o godz. 16:03:03 Israel Silberg napisał(a): > Hi All, > I'm about to loose any hope of finishing this LFS build. > During the MAN-DB compilation in section 6.55 > in the section: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > --libexecdir=/usr/lib > --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.2 > --sys

[lfs-support] (no subject)

2012-09-20 Thread Israel Silberg
Hi All, I'm about to loose any hope of finishing this LFS build. During the MAN-DB compilation in section 6.55 in the section: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.2 --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-setuid --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx --with-vgrind=/usr/bin

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/20/2012 02:26 AM, Whitequill Riclo wrote: [putolin] /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77a7000) -- Bruce I think I know what I'm doing wrong finally, all the command flags I'm using to find mpfr are to find the mpfr library/header file, rather then find the source to bui

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Baho Utot
On 09/20/2012 02:26 AM, Whitequill Riclo wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs > wrote: Whitequill Riclo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Feuerbacher, Alan < > afeuerbac...@allegromicro.com

[lfs-support] Booting from USB and root partition uuid

2012-09-20 Thread Tomasz Sekściński
Hi, I copied entire LFS instalation from hdd to USB stick and installed grub into USB. My grub.cfg contains entry: menuentry 'GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.6-lfs-7.1' { set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f53d22a3-c6a4-41d9-bd02-de1397f2a85d echo 'Loading Linux 3.2

Re: [lfs-support] udev-189

2012-09-20 Thread Dave
That's the fix.  I was trying to untar udev into an empty systemd directory.  I didn't realize that both sources had to be there. Thanks again Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:54:50AM -0400, Dave wrote: I'm at the point of installation, that udev is next. The book i

Re: [lfs-support] udev-189

2012-09-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:54:50AM -0400, Dave wrote: > I'm at the point of installation, that udev is next. The book is clear > as mud for installing this udev/systemd mess. > > Can someone walk me through the steps, so I can get to the real error. > I've tried 5 diff ways, all with differen

[lfs-support] udev-189

2012-09-20 Thread Dave
I'm at the point of installation, that udev is next. The book is clear as mud for installing this udev/systemd mess. Can someone walk me through the steps, so I can get to the real error. I've tried 5 diff ways, all with different errors, seem always some .h or .o file missing. but when I lo

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Melville
> > William Harrington wrote: > > > Sometimes you can't build mpfr mpc and gmp within the gcc source tree > > for some targets. We found that out in CLFS. That's we we don't build > > gmp mpc and mpfr within the tree. Works okay for x86 and x86_64, > > however, when you start building for other tar