[lfs-support] Proposed Changes to LFS Book

2014-01-14 Thread alex lupu
ee to the times of the files created in the kernel directory on running the command 'make headers_install', and not assign them an arbitrary time when I get around to run the copy after taking out the garbage and then getting a well deserved rest before being finally able to complete the

Re: [lfs-support] Host System Requirements LFS 7.4 with Mageia 3

2013-11-29 Thread alex
On 2013-11-29 18:26, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > alex@xfsmail.comwrote: > >> My real point is this one. Bash-3.2 (/bin/sh should be a symbolic or hard link to bash) I think maybe it means /bin/sh should be /bin/bash ( /bin/sh -> /bin/bash) but mine is ( /bin/sh -> /usr/bin/bash ).

Re: [lfs-support] Host System Requirements LFS 7.4 with Mageia 3

2013-11-29 Thread alex
e quite heavily-customised builds, the toolchain part (chapter-5) was > more-or-less 100% by-the-book). > > hth, > akh > -- I will take the risk, I'm still new with Mageia, I installed a week ago and maybe I will go back to Debian later. Thank you for letting me know about

Re: [lfs-support] Host System Requirements LFS 7.4 with Mageia 3

2013-11-29 Thread alex
On 2013-11-29 17:52, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > alex@xfsmail.comwrote: > >> Hi all, I'm still new for LFS, I'm going too try it. I'm with Mageia 3 and this is on the host bash, version 4.2.37(2)-release /bin/sh -> /usr/bin/bash

[lfs-support] Host System Requirements LFS 7.4 with Mageia 3

2013-11-29 Thread alex
ils) 5.1.2alpha g++ compilation OK Is my Mageia 3 ready for LFS 7.4 ? # ALEX # -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] A bug in gawk?

2013-10-11 Thread alex lupu
/'; done vs. cat tempx.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\.so"} ; {print $1}' A grateful, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] A bug in gawk?

2013-10-11 Thread alex lupu
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> alex lupu wrote: > >> ... []$ cat tempx.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS=".so"} ; {print $1}' >> ... >> Is there a problem with GNU gawk and/or my system or maybe with me? > >

[lfs-support] A bug in gawk?

2013-10-11 Thread alex lupu
mplishes what I intended. First, to test the waters, []$ sed -e 's/\.so/YYY/' tempx.txt libexpect5.43YYY libsndfileYYY.1.0.25 libsoftokn3YYY libsoup-2.4YYY.1.5.0 then, finally, []$ sed -e 's/\.so/YYY/' tempx.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS="YYY"} ; {print $1}' libexpect5.43 lib

Re: [lfs-support] Missing the good, old RTC

2013-07-18 Thread alex lupu
would like to thank you for your interest in our products and are looking forward to hearing from you in the future. mit Hochachtungsvoll, Your Friendly Kernel Team On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Arthur Radley < misterarthurrad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Markku Pesonen gmail.com> wri

Re: [lfs-support] Missing the good, old RTC

2013-07-17 Thread alex lupu
Hi Markku: Thanks a lot, Best Wishes, -- Alex On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Markku Pesonen wrote: > alex lupu wrote: > > BTW, what's a "Generic RTC class"? > > Would save me some research time ... > > Generic RTC class supports many different RTC ch

Re: [lfs-support] Missing the good, old RTC

2013-07-17 Thread alex lupu
. BTW, what's a "Generic RTC class"? Would save me some research time ... With my faith in humanity restored, Cheers, -- Alex On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Markku Pesonen wrote: > alex lupu wrote: > > Whatever happened to the CONFIG_RTC? > > "Enhanced Real Ti

[lfs-support] Missing the good, old RTC

2013-07-17 Thread alex lupu
y in 3.10.1 seems to be missing (thus the distresfull OP). -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Missing the good, old RTC

2013-07-17 Thread alex lupu
7;t bother anybody (or so I thought). It was supposed to help MPlayer with a cute, little line like "dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024". Inconsolably yours, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread alex lupu
g the build procedure (and it is apparently, since I seem to not have it my $PATH), then this may be much more convoluted than just a simple version mismatch. Bottom line: this is probably because you don't have something that the developer has. This is my (alex) reply: Here is just a key exc

[lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread alex lupu
heavy burden off my chest, a burden I had to keep inside for so many years. Still obsessed and puzzled (evidently), but at peace with myself now, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Missing zic during "6.9.2. Configuring Glibc"

2013-04-06 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
Scratch that last error...was another silly mistake from coming back to it and trying it from the source directory rather than the build directory. All sorted now. Thanks for the help. Just needed a fresh look at it. On Fri, 5 Apr, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Alex Stefan Kaye wrote: Thanks for that

Re: [lfs-support] Missing zic during "6.9.2. Configuring Glibc"

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
file in the timezone directory. Maybe another silly mistake. On Fri, 5 Apr, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 04/05/2013 08:30 PM, Alex Stefan Kaye wrote: During the "for tz in" loop in "Install timezone data", I'm getting this error: bash: zic: command not found

[lfs-support] Missing zic during "6.9.2. Configuring Glibc"

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
During the "for tz in" loop in "Install timezone data", I'm getting this error: bash: zic: command not found AFAIK I've not deviated from the book, and the make/make install for glibc seemed to go ok, as did the the tests (I think - see below). If I cd into the timezone directory in the built

Re: [lfs-support] Problems in Binutils Pass 2

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
"D'oh!" just doesn't quite cut it. I saw something like that in Google, but misunderstood the meaning. That makes perfect sense. Thanks very much Pierre. On Fri, 5 Apr, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 05/04/2013 12:22, Alex Stefan Kaye a écrit : Tha

Re: [lfs-support] Problems in Binutils Pass 2

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
uld start over when I feel more up to it. On Thu, 4 Apr, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 04/04/2013 23:05, Alex Stefan Kaye a écrit : Hi all, I've just started my LFS journey, and I've hit upon a problem when running configure during binutils pass 2. I've not dev

[lfs-support] Problems in Binutils Pass 2

2013-04-04 Thread Alex Stefan Kaye
Hi all, I've just started my LFS journey, and I've hit upon a problem when running configure during binutils pass 2. I've not deviated from the book at all (discounting any mistakes I've not noticed - it's late here, but I've been careful). The error: checking for C compiler default output f

[lfs-support] How is 'dev/pts' created (or not)?

2012-11-21 Thread alex lupu
t, *please* be wary of updating udev to a > newer version in a completed system! Do it if you have to, but > expect problems :) Can you elaborate on that a little bit (*please* add more sweet music)? [Assume it does solve the problem here on my "old" rig (E8400)] Thanks, -- Alex

[lfs-support] How is 'dev/pts' created (or not)?

2012-11-20 Thread alex lupu
Hi Bruce: == Alex: I was at kernel 3.6.1 and udev 182 Life was beautiful. I upgraded to udev 195. '/dev/pts' is no longer created. Same situation if now I go to 3.6.6 or 3.6.7. Strangely, I my new machine that I'm trying to get it off the ground 'dev/pts' has also disa

[lfs-support] How is 'dev/pts' created (or not)?

2012-11-20 Thread alex lupu
nd you of that!) As I said, maybe you want me to go somewhere deeper (bool, default, etc.). In that case please give me more non-expert details. Thanks again and Good night, -- Alex 6 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] How is 'dev/pts' created (or not)?

2012-11-20 Thread alex lupu
stop by and use it to (somehow) create a device '/dev/pts'. But nobody comes anymore. Any constructive comments will be highly appreciated. -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] I'm rc interactively confused

2012-11-16 Thread alex lupu
Hi Bruce, Bruce: read -t "${itime}" -n 1 interactive 2>&1 > /dev/null $interactive is not set until the read command completes. It shouldn't need to be set in the script. Alex: This is kind of a chicken and egg situation. If for some reason (say, unknown to us mortal

[lfs-support] I'm rc interactively confused

2012-11-16 Thread alex lupu
unresponsive. Am I missing something? Should I put something in '/etc/sysconfig/modules', etc.? Etc.? Reference: lfs-bootscripts-20121013 Thanks, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Grub 2.0 problem

2012-11-13 Thread alex lupu
appreciate helpful and patient answers and comments. Thanks, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-02 Thread alex lupu
n in the Sent window appears mangled even after the _correct_ "Plain Text" message. So here the only proof of the pudding (hopefully, a reassuring result) is a quick visit to, say, the lfs-support Archive in order to admire (or critique) your opus as the world gets to see it. Cheers, -- Alex --

[lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-02 Thread alex lupu
old teletypewriter days (vi for Unix/Linux or Notepad for Windows) and hitting a strategic Enter when the text seems to visually get closer to 80 characters solves this requirement very easily and cleanly, even when the line of _thought_ tends to go on and on forever (like this one). Cheers (cisco is on

Re: gcc test failures

2011-03-15 Thread Alex Bosworth
the same temperature range. First, I am gonna try recompile manually to see if jhalfs setting some unfavorable flags and thus making the test fail (I doubt that!). If that fails, I'm gonna download and run prime95 to see how the hardware fares. I will get back on this ASAP. Thanks, Alex

Re: gcc test failures

2011-03-13 Thread Alex Bosworth
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:50:43PM -0700, Alex Bosworth wrote: > > I don't think this is a hardware problem as none of the other packages fail >their tests and I don't encounter any crashes or errors during normal use. As >far the disk space and memory are concerned I do h

Re: gcc test failures

2011-03-13 Thread Alex Bosworth
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Dubbs" To: "LFS Support List" Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:47:47 AM Subject: Re: gcc test failures Alex Bosworth wrote: > Here's the synopsis: > > Been trying to compile LFS (from the latest svn version) on my lap

gcc test failures

2011-03-12 Thread Alex Bosworth
ags: --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib --disable-bootstrap --with-system-zlib EOF Mail -s "Results for gcc testsuite on i686-pc-linux-gnu" gcc-testresu...

Re: test

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Zuroff
Oh, is that what the problem is? I just thought the moderators were on an extended break. :) Alex On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Brittany Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Dustin W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Test to see if

TCL Compile Errors

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Teiche
alue no ignored as it ought to be make: *** [memcmp.o] Error 1 Any ideas how I can get around this? Thanks, Alex -- Stop spoon feeding the compiler, write better code. Python | Ruby | Perl | AJAX | Bash -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: Sanity check output from 6.12 GCC is identical to output from 6.10 Toolchain

2007-02-25 Thread Alex Winfield
>so it seems like the environment is set up correctly. >But the system is still using the old linker. > >from your original message: >root:/sources# grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|; |\n|g' >SEARCH_DIR("/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib") > >at this point it may be good to back up to ch 6.11

Re: Sanity check output from 6.12 GCC is identical to output from 6.10 Toolchain

2007-02-25 Thread Alex Winfield
>On 2/25/07, Alex Winfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> >>>On 2/25/07, Alex Winfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>SEARCH_DIR("/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib&quo

Re: Sanity check output from 6.12 GCC is identical to output from 6.10 Toolchain

2007-02-25 Thread Alex Winfield
>On 2/25/07, Alex Winfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>SEARCH_DIR("/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib") >> >> > >it looks like the new linker from 6.11 binutils is not being used. >try that grep command on the linker binary inside the ch

Sanity check output from 6.12 GCC is identical to output from 6.10 Toolchain

2007-02-24 Thread Alex Winfield
Sanity check output from 6.12 GCC is identical to output from 6.10 Toolchain Output is as follows: root:/sources# echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c root:/sources# cc dummy.c -Wl,--verbose &> dummy.log root:/sources# readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib' [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld- linux.so.

Re: Had to reboot with LFS LiveCD in Ch.6, now I'm stuck

2006-03-09 Thread Alex Mishchenko
Try: mkdir /mnt/lfs mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/lfs On 3/9/06, Terrance Lackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working through the book using the LFS LiveCD as my host. I got > as far as compiling Glibc in chapter 6, then lost power. When I booted back > up, I couldn't figure out how to prope

Re: bunzip and untar locations

2005-08-09 Thread Alex
ering newbie with login like livecd or root and my questions would most likely be not answered. With my experience I can probably build a lfs system without the help of some sad ops(but with the one of the mailing list ;), I just thought it funny that the topic come around one of the few day

Re: kernel panic - not syncing : No init found

2005-08-08 Thread Alex
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't seen any comment spelling this out yet - if you put /lib on a > different partition, you are going to have to do something to cope with > /lib/ld-linux not being available (I saw that in the error message). > I'm not familiar with what you were

Re: kernel panic - not syncing : No init found

2005-08-08 Thread Alex
lib > you should have /var /tmp /dev /bin /sbin /etc and /lib on your / > partitition Is it impossible to have them separate? I was trying to follow the security advice from: http://www.seifried.org/lasg/installation/ Thanks for your help, Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: kernel panic - not syncing : No init found

2005-08-08 Thread Alex
ug 5 13:47 null I don't know if that could be an issue but: I use different partition for /boot / /usr /home /var /tmp /var/lib /dev and /lib And I used the package user method of package management. Thanks for help, Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

kernel panic - not syncing : No init found

2005-08-07 Thread Alex
Hi all, the subject line tells it all. I just rebooted into my new lfs and got: kernel panic - not syncing : No init found I do have /etc/rc.d/init.d and rcsysinit.d. If anyone could point me to the right direction. Thanks Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-28 Thread Alex
rou "VolGroup00" using... #vgchange -a y VolGroup00 /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver #mdprobe dm-mod #vgchange -a y VolGroup00 And from there everything works ok. Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-28 Thread Alex
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Note that I understand the error. My question is how could it be >> different from hda1 and 2 when the fs has been made by the same FC4 fs >> system. > > Hrm. Indeed. And I'm not sure about that one. I know there's been > reports before now concerning

Compilation error while compiling GCC 3.4.3

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Smith
ctory > `/sources/workdir/src/gcc-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libiberty' > make: *** [all-target-libiberty] Error 2 Do you know what is causing this. The only change I have made from the LFS book is that I have used Glibc 2.3.5 instead of 2.3.4 Thanks, Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-24 Thread Alex
X-Draft-From: ("nntp+news.linuxfromscratch.org:lfs.support" 1106) Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex wrote: >> I am using ADSL. no NAT no router. To set it up on FC4, only had to >> say, ADSL, my login name and my password. > > Once the c

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-23 Thread Alex
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex wrote: >> I tried to use FC4 as a host but had to many problem so decided to >> use the liveCD. I still got 2 remaining problems: >> * from LiveCD I can't use the Internet. I presume it's because my >>

internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-23 Thread Alex
is on hda1 and 2. I can mount hda1 but only grub and lost+found are on it. I tried to mount hda2 but got an error. How can I have a different result on hda1 and 2? thanks for any hints Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.h