Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Chapter 6.61. Util-linux-2.24.1

2014-04-07 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > LOL. That's html. The book is in xml docbook. > > I'll see what I can do. I've looked at the patch briefly. I'm pretty sure that using rm to remove an executable is a bad idea in a system that might not always have package management. I'd also

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 Patching Perl

2013-12-25 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Bob Elgie wrote: > Among the patches needed to build 7.4 is a Perl libc patch. I can't see > where this patch is applied; it is not mentioned in chapter 6.39. > > The only place I find instructions to apply it is in the French version of > the svn build. > > Should

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS and UEFI

2013-12-19 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > BTW. If writing about UEFI and booting in a hint, would you care to > author it with me? Maybe. Depends on how much time I have. If I'm gonna commit myself to adding a LFS installation to my machine. Virtualbox EFI emulation isn't that stellar.

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS and UEFI

2013-12-19 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > I purposefully didn't mention gummiboot because I wanted my presentation > to be as "minimal" as possible. The same reason for "no logic" and > references. I really like gummiboot. And yes, it it PCIutils that it needs. Yea, I really like what I

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS and UEFI

2013-12-19 Thread William Immendorf
Thanks for posting advice for EFI users. You should probally make this into a hint sometime soon. I might want to add info about Gummiboot [1] (or at least mention it) - it's really useful if you want to take advantage of EFI and still be able to choose almost instantly which OS you want to boot in

Re: [lfs-support] LFS, Uthayanan has invited you to open a Gmail account

2012-01-10 Thread William Immendorf
On Jan 10, 2012 5:27 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. You do realize that Gmail is not good for managing mailing lists? (yes, I know it probaly was a finger slip or something - but still...) Sent

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

2011-11-08 Thread William Immendorf
ograms, including a compiler, linker, and shell, > to build the new system." (Bruce, you may want to add:) "The LiveCDs of these distributions work well as a base system too." -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID

Re: wget-list in svn-20111005

2011-10-06 Thread William Immendorf
t; > When going on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ I could see there was > no directory v3.x. The kernel.org team is still uploading their kernel releases. While that is happening, please use Anduin or one of the other LFS package sites in order to get the kernel.org packages. -- W

Re: 5.5.1. Installation of Cross GCC error in libgcc

2011-09-11 Thread William Immendorf
, not into one of your build directories. Please recompile Cross-Binutils, and install it into $LFS/tools. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program

Re: Ubuntu Host system, Toolchain

2011-09-02 Thread William Immendorf
is too old to be really usable now. Please use the 7.0 RC1 release instead of LFS 6.3. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

Re: svn-20110830

2011-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Philippe Delavalade wrote: > On the page > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/ > > there is lfs-bootscripts-20110803.tar.bz2 but not > lfs-bootscripts-20110830.tar.bz2. > > Is there a typo somewhere ? Try again. The file got added last ni

Re: LFS 6.8 chap 5.5 gcc 4.5.2 make fails "short version"

2011-08-21 Thread William Immendorf
st. But, your suggestion should work, as long as you backup all of your data. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --

Re: LFS 6.8 chap 5.5 gcc 4.5.2 make fails "short version"

2011-08-21 Thread William Immendorf
> establish LFS Host System Requirements, etc etc - (I may have hit one or the > other wrong key in the process!?) Go ahead and do that. Still, a broken shell is quite strange... -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 16

(BTW: GCC-pass1 is built in 5.5) Re: LFS 6.8 chap 5.10 gcc 4.5.2 make fails "short version"

2011-08-19 Thread William Immendorf
(and attach) the configure log for libgcc (should be in it's build directory). Look for a line that says "error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile" and look around there. You should see what caused it and why. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread William Immendorf
e've got that's as up to date as that. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program,

Re: LFS 6.8 chap 5.10 gcc 4.5.2 make fails

2011-08-17 Thread William Immendorf
st post the tail end of the output next time. > config.log sent as separate post Do you know about email attachments? Well, obviously you don't, and it's better practice to attach this kind of stuff next time. Or just use Pastebin. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. M

Re: lfs system

2011-08-14 Thread William Immendorf
rt list message following these rules. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

Re: Compiling Xorg Protocol Headers in BLFS Version svn-20110728

2011-08-13 Thread William Immendorf
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM, ga ho wrote: > Will it create any problems when "make" is run if it doesn't need to be? It should not create any problems. If a target is run in make that does not exist, make just skips over it. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free comp

Re: lfs system

2011-08-13 Thread William Immendorf
k. Please make sure you read this: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/essential_prereading.txt -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfr

Re: binutils [II]

2011-08-06 Thread William Immendorf
FYI: It really helps if you actually understand us and the list, and the book. On Aug 6, 2011 2:58 PM, "Bill Cunningham" wrote: >Mixing versions? What is FBBG? > FBBG = Follow Book, Book Good I said you were mixing versions because you were building Glibc 2.13 (LFS 6.8) with Binutils 2.17 (L

Re: binutils [II]

2011-08-06 Thread William Immendorf
On Aug 6, 2011 1:45 AM, "Bill Cunningham" wrote: > >The latest LFS livecd has binutils 2.17 which is require to build > glibc-2.13 but when I try to run the configure script it tells me that the > assembler is too old? Huh? And this is why we build our own copies of Binutils and GCC before Gli

Re: GCC pass 1 - .lib is missing in gmp dir

2011-07-29 Thread William Immendorf
ibjava at this point in the book. While I build all of GCC's languages (except for Ada, which I build when I have a Ada compiler), I do that in Chapter 6, and it still seems that you are at Chapter 5. Word of advice: FBBG. Just build C and C++ at this point and you will be fine. -- Wi

Re: glibc error again

2011-07-28 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote: >    I have a livecd of lfs. I think that will do. now if I could just figure > out how to get the system running with it. I will look closely at the docs. As long as that LiveCD is of LFS 6.3, you are fine. -- William Immendo

Re: glibc error again

2011-07-28 Thread William Immendorf
ere. Forget about Redhat 9 - it's just too old. Or just simply burn an image of Knoppix and you will be fine. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every

Re: more glibc problems

2011-07-26 Thread William Immendorf
to follow right now. When you feel like it, sure, But not for your first build. Oh, and it's dangerous to go alone. Take this! (Hint Get!!) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/essential_prereading.txt -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in pl

Re: glibc

2011-07-26 Thread William Immendorf
x27;d recommend going and downloading the latest version of the Knoppix LiveCD (or LiveDVD if you prefer) from http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/. There is help at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-info/index-en.html, and be sure to look at the cheatcodes for Knoppix. -- William Immendorf

Re: gcc-4.0.1

2011-07-22 Thread William Immendorf
27;t recommend the development versions of LFS. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he i

Re: coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

2011-07-21 Thread William Immendorf
es unless they are really needed (like in the case of GCC and such). In this case, you can keep going on. Be sure to register yourself on the LFS user counter!!! -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not si

Re: Configure Error Received in Chpt. 6.9. Glibc-2.13

2011-07-11 Thread William Immendorf
l in plain old English. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master."  Ri

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-07-07 Thread William Immendorf
d Memtest86+: http://www.memtest.org/ Download the latest version, burn it, boot into it, and let it run overnight. If any errors come up, try to remove SIMMs and see if you can get Memtest to pass, and hopefully get no segfaults when compiling. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free com

Re: Glibc test error

2011-07-02 Thread William Immendorf
d bloody issue is this: YOU ARE BUILDING A VERY OLD AND OBSOLETE VERSION OF LFS. Always use the latest stable version of LFS, and it would help more if you tell us which chapter and section you are in. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HT

Re: gcc-4.6.0 errors

2011-06-29 Thread William Immendorf
. Are you doing the first pass or the second pass of GCC? Anyway, I think you should simple reset the GCC build and try again, following the book exactly. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it

Re: compiling cross gcc-4.6.0

2011-06-29 Thread William Immendorf
y > new ld and as? One word: FBBG. (follow book, book good). Just move on, nothing to really worry about. The instructions are correct, just keep a going. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not si

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-24 Thread William Immendorf
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Is that in large friendly letters? Then he'd better bring > his towel. Well, I would have made that part bigger, but we can't use HTML in our messages. Bummer. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messag

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-23 Thread William Immendorf
leave the towel behind) -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master."

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-23 Thread William Immendorf
is targeting, the version is obsolete. The latest stable version is now 6.8. Please make sure you are using the version at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable, and promise me you will use that instead of LFS 6.3. If you want to use a LiveCD, just use something like Knoppix or Aptosid.

OT: Re: How is this possible?

2011-06-23 Thread William Immendorf
;m marking it as OT. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master."

Re: 6.50. Man-DB-2.5.9

2011-06-22 Thread William Immendorf
se two tests. You can go on. Please note for future reference that, unless otherwise specified, test suites are not necessary. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "

Re: Shadow's su using Package Users will not switch

2011-06-22 Thread William Immendorf
s) from the tools-directory, but I like to know where the problem > comes from. Has it to do with the "Package Users" system? Experience tells me that you need to make su setuid in order for it to work. To do this, run chown root /bin/su && chmod 4755 /bin/su -- William Immen

Re: lfs-bootscripts-20110424 not work since last update

2011-05-27 Thread William Immendorf
install properly. Either the book should add initd_tools or it should revert to using the regular scripts for the time being. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me.

Re: The trouble with not following instructions (a problem with X.org)

2011-05-23 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > William, you have the patience of a saint. Thanks. I was planning to submit this whole event onto Computer Stupidities: Website: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ I'll file it under "Listen Already!" Is it OK if I d

The trouble with not following instructions (a problem with X.org)

2011-05-23 Thread William Immendorf
u can see by reading the renamed subject header. Go back to "Introduction to Xorg 7.6", and follow the instructions EXACTLY. AND I REALLY MEAN EXACTLY. Also refer to my previous messages about this problem. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, pl

Re: I MISS/deleted SOME FILES IN sysconfig dir [UNDER /etc/]

2011-05-10 Thread William Immendorf
ootscripts in BLFS, just reinstall and reconfigure those. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program

Re: bash:etc/sysconfig/mouse no such file or directory

2011-05-10 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:53 AM, janu mam wrote: > bash:etc/sysconfig/mouse no such file or directory You probably just made a typo. It's supposed to be /etc/sysconfig/mouse, not etc/sysconfig/mouse (notice the slash at the beginning). -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free c

Re: blfs-svn- [make install-gpm] error

2011-05-09 Thread William Immendorf
book asks you to install a bootscript, you are supposed to install it from there. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a

Re: LFS6.7

2011-04-23 Thread William Immendorf
emove -i option in env command > inside chroot--- No. The -i option of env (according to the man page) means to start with an empty environment, and that means that extra environment variables from the host are removed. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free comp

Fwd: LFS6.7

2011-04-23 Thread William Immendorf
nu that he should send to the list next time. William -- Forwarded message -- From: janu mam Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:27 AM Subject: LFS6.7 To: will.immend...@gmail.com hi William Immendorf thanks for reply i redo the chapters this time i didnot get any errors i started lfs6.7,

Re: lfs-.7

2011-04-22 Thread William Immendorf
your previous message. Please attach what "../gcc-4.5.1/contrib/test_summary | grep -A7 Summ" outputs. (Copy the command, not including the quotes) -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it

Re: lfs-.7

2011-04-22 Thread William Immendorf
the build log. Also, LFS 6.8 is out. Just so you know. It's been out for a month, not really sure why you are using 6.7. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -

Re: make fails in section 6.16.1. Installation of GCC

2011-02-24 Thread William Immendorf
c-build' > make: *** [all] Error 2 Try reinstalling GMP, and follow the instructions this time. Also, build MPFR and MPC if you haven't arleady. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it'

Re: LFS Page 5.19 - File 5.04 Complie Issues

2011-01-28 Thread William Immendorf
lt in the toolchain, so why is (presumbly) configure detecting it? Can I see your config.log so I can see what is causing it to use the host libs? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it

Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-10 Thread William Immendorf
the chroot environment. If you want to run the test suites for anything using DejaGNU in the chroot enviorment, run the test suite as root. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not

Re: Udev-165 (apparently) System Crash

2011-01-08 Thread William Immendorf
th the linux-hotplug and the LKML lists about this issue, as they will investigate it further. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree prog

Re: Udev-165 (apparently) System Crash

2011-01-06 Thread William Immendorf
plug (the Udev list). Also, be sure to provide the kdump of that kernel, the log, and the hardware that you think is causing the Udev issue. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signe

Re: make won't work in section 6

2010-12-28 Thread William Immendorf
s for Glibc, Binutils, GMP/MPFR/MPC, and GCC if you want to really make sure you've done a good job (and make sure you check the test results with the LFS ones) -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it

Re: tar-1.25 got a tarball file lager than the dir

2010-12-23 Thread William Immendorf
he wrote on the wrong list. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

Re: tar-1.25 got a tarball file lager than the dir

2010-12-23 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:44 AM, William Immendorf wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:38 AM, xinglp wrote: >> sorry about my Egnrish ;-) > ... what did I tell you about the fact that this thread DOES NOT > BELONG ON THIS LIST!!! Wow, I'm a hypocrite. I was making it cl

Re: tar-1.25 got a tarball file lager than the dir

2010-12-23 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:38 AM, xinglp wrote: > sorry about my Egnrish ;-) ... what did I tell you about the fact that this thread DOES NOT BELONG ON THIS LIST!!! -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it&#x

Re: gmp

2010-12-23 Thread William Immendorf
th this > one but got the same thing. > If I understand it correctly I need to use the abi=32 env arg Your problem is that you are building an Pure64 bit system, and on that system, that arg makes no sense. Remove ABI=32 from configure and run it again. -- William Immendorf The ult

Re: tar-1.25 got a tarball file lager than the dir

2010-12-22 Thread William Immendorf
s /usr/share/doc ,43M This type of message dosen't belong on any of the LFS lists. It should belong to Tar's development list, which I see you already sent to. Also, as a side note, the Engrish makes it hard to understand the point that you are trying to prove. -- William Immendorf The ul

Re: LFS 6.6 problems

2010-12-22 Thread William Immendorf
ead, then I would say "keep going", once we tell you that you are OK. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord

Re: LFS-6.7 Chapter 5.10 GCC make failure

2010-12-21 Thread William Immendorf
nux.so.2] or something like that, then you adjusted the toolchain right. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord,

Re: Glibc compile problem

2010-12-17 Thread William Immendorf
emove and recreate the $LFS/tools directory. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the pr

Re: patch

2010-11-25 Thread William Immendorf
he solution is jujst to remove the Linux dir, tar it out again, and this time, acually follow the instructions. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- &

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-16 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Someone Somebody wrote: > Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for > building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking to the LiveCD required? I use aptosid (formally sidux) for building my LFS system. -- William Immendo

Re: LFS 6.7 Chapter 5.7 glibc configure warning

2010-11-11 Thread William Immendorf
it's just a harmless warning. You can keep building. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and

Re: Problem Booting up the new system ?

2010-11-09 Thread William Immendorf
tself. I'm not 100% sure which, but hopefully we can find a good solution for you. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program

Re: Install Binutils-2.16.1 Error

2010-09-26 Thread William Immendorf
nstead, use the latest stable version of LFS out there (which is 6.7) -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

Re: Disable USB Input Messages

2010-09-15 Thread William Immendorf
;ve found solutions for > problems when booting, but this is a run-time problem. > > Does anyone have a solution? > > I'd be very grateful, it's impossible to use my new LFS this way... Try adding LOGLEVEL=1 to /etc/sysconfig/console and rebooting. After doing that, all of t

Re: Which environment and bash

2010-09-10 Thread William Immendorf
/bin/env or /usr/bin/env ? Idem for tools/bin/bash > or /bin/bash ? Usually, I use the ones located in /bin (not the ones built in /tools) if you are at this point. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
other than that, don't reboot on Livecds. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the prog

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
ne on with your build. As a side note, LFS 6.5 is now an old version, so may as well use SVN (soon-to-be LFS 6.7) -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "

Re: Possible problem with linker search path

2010-08-26 Thread William Immendorf
ad idea. Also, trim messages. Anyway, did you make a typo when running the commands at the end of section 5.9? You will need to rebuild the ld-new linker, but at this point, I'm not really sure you can do that without starting over again. The only think that will work is to try again, an

Re: Possible problem with linker search path

2010-08-26 Thread William Immendorf
here are some diffrences along the way. Also, you can use the development version if you want, with kernel 2.6.35.3. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "

Re: Binutils (Pass 2)

2010-08-21 Thread William Immendorf
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:55 PM, William Immendorf wrote: > Maybe you should just start from scratch again and this time try to > use the copy-and-paste the instructions in instead of panstakingly > typing them in. s/panstakingly/painstakingly Additionally, don't top post

Re: Binutils (Pass 2)

2010-08-21 Thread William Immendorf
rom scratch again and this time try to use the copy-and-paste the instructions in instead of panstakingly typing them in. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- &

Re: Binutils (Pass 2)

2010-08-21 Thread William Immendorf
ain: source ~/.bashrc Then try building Binutils again. If it errors out, then you should examine your .bashrc. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "E

Re: LFS 6.3-Linux 2.6.22.5 API Headers

2010-08-20 Thread William Immendorf
7;t use version 6.3 of the book. That's like, three years old, and I recommend that you use the development version (soon to be 6.7), and you'll get a nice and modern system from it with hopefully no build issues. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain te

Re: Error at 7.13. Configuring the network Script ( Book 6.6 )

2010-08-14 Thread William Immendorf
ber of directories. If it isn't mounted, then you need to mount it using this command: mount -vt sysfs sysfs /sys in chroot. Then try the udevadm command again. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's

Re: Error at 6.16. GCC-4.4.3

2010-08-11 Thread William Immendorf
rror and continue with the book ? > > Please let me know if you need any more details. Does your test log look like this one? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/6.6/core2duo/test-logs/076-gcc If so, then continue building LFS. If there are some odd failures, you may want to diagnose

Re: Glibc Makefile_fix Patch Doesn't Appear to be Available for Download

2010-08-04 Thread William Immendorf
st wait untill Matt gets the patch ready. But we would like it soon, as I'm getting impatient for it... -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- &quo

Re: Who uses package users?

2010-07-29 Thread William Immendorf
, do this as root: rm /usr/include/scsi/scsi.h Then try installing Glibc again. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a l

Re: Command not found

2010-07-24 Thread William Immendorf
book's instructions exactly, and see what happens. Oh, and for reference, what version of the book is this? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- &q

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - booting in the new system

2010-07-18 Thread William Immendorf
ing this list, try to look things up yourself. Anyway, this is the sed that Bruce wanted you to apply: sed -i -e 's/inline void rdtsc_barrier/__always_inline void rdtsc_barrier/' \ arch/x86/include/asm/system.h Then recompile the kernel. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - booting in the new system

2010-07-18 Thread William Immendorf
your memory. Another reason is that your CPU is overheating. If it is, your CPU heatsink is not working, and you should get a new one. Segfaults can also happen when overclocking. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697B

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - booting in the new system

2010-07-15 Thread William Immendorf
/dev/hda with /dev/sda? Did you send this by accident? If you did, then I'll let this pass. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - booting in the new system - Problem

2010-07-06 Thread William Immendorf
i the grub.cfg file and replace root=/dev/hda1 with root=/dev/sda1. Then try to boot up your LFS system. If your kernel panics upon boot, complaing about not being able to mount the root file system, then you have a kernel configuration problem. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computin

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - booting in the new system - Problem

2010-07-06 Thread William Immendorf
"Generic ATA Support". Also, modify your fstab from /dev/hda{1,5} to /dev/sda{1,5}. Also, can you please give me an ls of /dev from your host system, and what host system is it? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID:

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't "make" new kernel

2010-06-25 Thread William Immendorf
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > Another tool to find out information about a file is stat, part of > coreutils. Or just use file, which is part of File (the package). -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. G

Re: LVM2

2010-06-17 Thread William Immendorf
ng on your hard drive space, you might want to adjust my layout a bit to conserve space. But, before I go, remember this #1 LVM Rule: Always leave space for partitions to grow or to make snapshots. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. G

Re: LFS-6.6, Chapter 6.16 Install GCC, libacl.so.1 not found

2010-05-28 Thread William Immendorf
hich is a BLFS package, not a LFS one), which means that you've compiled your Ch5 toolchain wrong. The only way to fix this is to start over and follow the instructions exactly. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE

Re: Glibc make fails with Error 2

2010-05-22 Thread William Immendorf
and > it Gives me the following error: > > make: *** [all] Error 2 Please, give me more info. What was the command that failed, and what errors did it produce? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it

Re: GMP-5.0.0 'make check' problem

2010-05-22 Thread William Immendorf
sts: No such > file or directory Judging by the errors, it looks like that GMP thinks that you are building outside of the chroot enviroment (which is an incorrect assumption), so something must have gone wonky with the paths. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in pla

Re: Glibc fails to make. (error 2)

2010-05-19 Thread William Immendorf
mits.h' are the same file Wait, you're not supposed to compile your packges from the $LFS/tools directory. Please, build in a seprate directory than your tools directory. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If

Re: gzip help

2010-05-17 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Mag Gam wrote: > Any help? Sorry, can't really help you, as I've never used the Intel C compiler. What version of the Intel C compiler are you using? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTM

Re: LFS version 6.6 Chapter 6.9.1 error

2010-05-08 Thread William Immendorf
meout's exceed. As for the previous problem, that needs some more investegating, as I've never seen that happen before. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. --

Re: glibc compiling problem in lfs 6.6

2010-04-14 Thread William Immendorf
ib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] This is normal. I think you are using a 64-bit system, so you are building a Pure-64bit system now. If you want to build a muiltilib system, you might want to see CLFS: trac.cross-lfs.org -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, plea

Re: Which chipset for USB?

2010-03-21 Thread William Immendorf
d for now (the only motherboards that I know of that support USB 3.0 are very recent Gigabyte Tec. motherboards, ie: the ones that advertise USB 3.0 on the box), but if you have one of these newer Gigabyte boards, I'd say to enable it, you'll thank youself later in the future. Hope you fi

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-18 Thread William Immendorf
x. I simply > want them to be recognized by the kernel. Look in Device Drivers-> Sereal ATA and Parallel ATA drivers, and you should see PATA and SATA drivers. Enable one that matches your hard disk controller, or just enable "Generic ATA Support". -- William Immendorf The ulti

Re: webkitgtk: Compile Failure (Which I think is releated to ICU)

2010-03-09 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:49 PM, William Immendorf wrote: >  CXX    WebCore/platform/text/libWebCore_la-TextBoundariesICU.lo > WebCore/platform/text/TextBoundariesICU.cpp: In function ‘int > WebCore::findNextWordFromIndex(const UChar*, int, int, bool)’: > WebCore/p

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