Re: removing $LFS/tools?

2006-05-10 Thread Jeremy Byron
Angel Tsankov wrote: > May I remove the $LFS/tools directory after building the LFS system? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/revisedchroot.html Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscri

Re: how to know package install options

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy Byron
Guilherme Moro wrote: Hello, i can't understand how to know the installation options for each package... Package install options are generally accessible by './configure --help' for example .. in the ncurses installation page ( chapter 6.21 ) he told me to do chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/*.5.4 T

Re: problems booting, get to grub> prompt

2006-04-23 Thread Jeremy Byron
Miles Fidelman wrote: As far as I can tell, I have /boot/grub/menu.1st set up right: mv /boot/grub/menu.1st /boot/grub/menu.lst It's a lower case 'L' not a one. Regards, Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsu

Re: Using --strip-all everywhere

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Byron
Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > First, use of the flag in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS and EVEN LDFLAGS don't seem to be dangerous at all. Looks like it's being done intelligently for executable and shared files. "...with ELF you typically need some symbolic information in the file for the program to load and

Re: Using --strip-all everywhere

2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Byron
v p wrote: > I'm going to install LFS and therefore have a question: can I define > CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS to contain '-s' flag and compile > EVERYTHING with it, even GCC and GLIBC? Book says nobody must use You can do anything you like including breaking your build by deviating ignorantly f

Re: About chapters 6.5 and 6.6

2005-12-20 Thread Jeremy Byron
Dan Nicholson wrote: Yep, no reason why not. You can script everything if you want. In fact, I doubt there are any veteran LFSers who don't script the build. I've built LFS dozens of times since I heard of it at v3-ish so I guess I qualify as a veteran LFSer. I started writing scripts to do

Re: grub setup problem

2005-11-29 Thread Jeremy Byron
thorsten wrote: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists ... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists ... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs-stage1-5" exists ... no" As far as I know, this stage1-5 is not needed. Yes it is. The book tells you to copy the necessary stage1-5 files just below t

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeremy Byron
Lennon Cook wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote: Not true. It is a *myth* that has propogated thru these lists so many times that it *sounds* true. If it were true, gentoo users would need to reinstall their OS every time a toolchain package was updated. Gentoo users are generally told that they sh

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Jeremy Byron
Tushar Teredesai wrote: For your current problem, one thing you could do is to use the following to install the new gcc: make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/gcc install This will install everything into a fakeroot /var/tmp/gcc. Now remove the previous gcc version from the standard directories and then recur

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Jeremy Byron
Doug Ronne wrote: Lets say you wanted to re-compile and install your copy of gcc and you didn't want some of the files lying around, maybe you didn't want some ada compiler anymore or something, and you wanted to make sure that you didn't have leftovers from the previous copy. How would you do t

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread Jeremy Byron
Tom wrote: I cant read that page its small ??? 1) Move your mouse pointer into the middle of the focused browser window 2) Hold CTRL 3) Spin your mouse wheel (or tap + if you haven't one) Regards, Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromsc

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread Jeremy Byron
David Ciecierski wrote: After the bootstrap and dmake, I get stuck on libxmlsec. The configure runs, and bails because it can't find the nss/nspr stuff (or openssl/gnutls). It's not accepting the original configure command apparently, and even running it separately I can't get it to accept t

Re: Firefox error to install

2005-08-14 Thread Jeremy Byron
mlij wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# firefox *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 25954 Segment Fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} What happened? Your font setup is likely