Re: Q: changing to a UTF locale?

2009-08-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 12:57 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/8/12 Jeremy Henty : > > > > Thanks for all that info. Is it feasible to switch a current LFS > > installation to UTF-8 by tweaking /etc/sysconfig/console and > > rebooting, or should I reinstall? > > > > I can't comment on

Help: making lfs-6.4 bootable on usb hard disk.

2009-08-13 Thread khaled gouaich
Hi ALL, I need some help to make my lfs-6.4 bootable on a usb hard disk. My lfs-6.4 works fine on my host and it boots ok . I have made a lfs-6.4.iso which is bootable on VirtualBox as disque optique and it works very fine, using of course only my lfs-6.4.iso and my initrd.img. But now, i want to m

Test error: Perl, section 6.32

2009-08-13 Thread Jeremy Henty
I get 1 error running the test set for Perl in chapter 6 of LFS 6.5-rc2. If I run "./perl harness" in the t directory the report summary is: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed -

Re: Q: changing to a UTF locale?

2009-08-13 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/8/13 Simon Geard : > > Along those lines, how *do* you tell the system it should assume UTF-8 > (or any other encoding) globally? My Gnome setup seems to be mostly > there - Evolution, Gedit, etc are happily using it, but gnome-terminal > seems to believe that the current locale is "ANSIX-3.4

Bash shell scripting help

2009-08-13 Thread James Robertson
All I know that this list is for LFS support, but I figured that I can get my question answered here better than anywhere else, so please bear with me. I am writing a shell script for another package I downloaded (ntlm-aps). As part of the script I issue this command: export http_proxy=http

Re: Help: making lfs-6.4 bootable on usb hard disk.

2009-08-13 Thread Maurice McCarthy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry new to lfs but look at these for inspiration: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb&s=bootable+usb http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2007/04/22/booting-from-usb-pen-troubleshooting-and-pitfalls/ grml also has a script grml2usb http://grml.org Regar

Re: Bash shell scripting help

2009-08-13 Thread Smartboy
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:58 AM, James Robertson wrote: > All > > I know that this list is for LFS support, but I figured that I can get > my question answered here better than anywhere else, so please bear with > me. > > I am writing a shell script for another package I downloaded > (ntlm-aps).

Re: Bash shell scripting help

2009-08-13 Thread Wit
Smartboy wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:58 AM, James Robertson > wrote: > > All > > I know that this list is for LFS support, but I figured that I can get > my question answered here better than anywhere else, so please bear with > me. > > I am

Re: Bash shell scripting help

2009-08-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:56 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > That is one of the biggest flaws in bash. I ran into the same problem > a while back when trying to make a script of mine more modular by > dividing it up into several files. Only way around it that I know of > is to export it into a file, then