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2011-06-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 12:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > If one wants BOTH outputs to go to the stdout file, then one > uses the &1 as the redirected output, like this > > $ xyz 2>&1 > > this makes fd 2 "point to" the same file as fd 1. So, And it's very important to remember that it's "2>&1", n

Re: 6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Interesting. I have more faith in my own code than I do in others'. > You apparently trust others' works more than you do your own. It's more that I see automated testing as being for the developer's benefit - so when writing code, it's esse

Re: 6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Interesting. I have more faith in my own code than I do in others'. > You apparently trust others' works more than you do your own. It's more that I see automated testing as being for the developer's benefit - so when writing code, it's ess

Testing failure: GCC-4.5.2

2011-06-22 Thread robert
I've reposted this ... previous post possibly lost with earlier similarly titled thread. Original Message Subject: 6.16. GCC-4.5.2 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:36:04 -0500 From: robert To: LFS Support List This is disconcerting. While results seem to be "acceptable", the Error

Re: 6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-22 Thread Eric Plummer
Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Interesting. I have more faith in my own code than I do in others'. >> You apparently trust others' works more than you do your own. > > It's more that I see automated testing as being for the developer's > benefit - so

Re: Testing failure: GCC-4.5.2

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew Elian
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:42:40AM -0500, robert wrote: > I've reposted this ... previous post possibly lost with earlier similarly > titled > thread. > Hi Robert, > Original Message > Subject: 6.16. GCC-4.5.2 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:36:04 -0500 > From: robert > To: LFS S

Re: Testing failure: GCC-4.5.2

2011-06-22 Thread robert
On 06/22/2011 11:59 AM, Andrew Elian wrote: > For myself, I would proceed forward, especially if the number of > failures is similar to the results others have gotten. I don't think > I've ever seen the gcc testsuite return zero failures. > >> >> [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-li

Shadow's su using Package Users will not switch

2011-06-22 Thread jpkaper
I am building LFS 6.8 using "Package Users" package-management. After installing Shadow from chapter 6.55, switching as root to a new user with su gave the error:"Setgid: Operation not permitted". I was able to work around this problem by replacing Shadows's su with su(-tools) from the tools-d

6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6

2011-06-22 Thread robert
6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6 works fine until I reach instruction: rm -v /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} re-ran the sequence and stopped just before this command; checked /usr/bin for bunzip2, bzcat, and bzip2; these do not exist. Is this a legacy instruction that is of no use, or has something gone awry?

Re: 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6

2011-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: > 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6 works fine until I reach instruction: > rm -v /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} > > re-ran the sequence and stopped just before this command; checked /usr/bin > for > bunzip2, bzcat, and bzip2; these do not exist. > > Is this a legacy instruction that is of no use

Re: 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6

2011-06-22 Thread robert
On 06/22/2011 04:39 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > robert wrote: >> 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6 works fine until I reach instruction: >> rm -v /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} >> >> re-ran the sequence and stopped just before this command; checked /usr/bin >> for >> bunzip2, bzcat, and bzip2; these do not exist. >>

6.50. Man-DB-2.5.9

2011-06-22 Thread robert
Serious errors? are these the errors noted "Note that 2 tests are known to fail as they rely on warnings output from Groff, which changed slightly in Groff-1.21." make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/man-db-2.5.9/src/tests' make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/man-db-2.5.9/src/tests' make[2]:

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

2011-06-22 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:14 PM, jpkaper wrote: > After installing Shadow from chapter 6.55, switching as root to a new user > with su gave the error:"Setgid: Operation not permitted". > I was able to work around this problem by replacing Shadows's su with > su(-tools) from the tools-directory, bu

Re: 6.50. Man-DB-2.5.9

2011-06-22 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, robert wrote: > Serious errors? are these the errors noted > "Note that 2 tests are known to fail as they rely on warnings output from > Groff, > which changed slightly in Groff-1.21." I think that's what the book meant about these two tests. You can go on. Pleas

Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.

2011-06-22 Thread xinglp
Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system. But it works well on 64bits. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.

2011-06-22 Thread xinglp
2011/6/23 xinglp : > Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.  But it > works well on 64bits. > May be my mistake, I'll check it later -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above info

Re: Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.

2011-06-22 Thread xinglp
2011/6/23 xinglp : > 2011/6/23 xinglp : >> Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.  But it >> works well on 64bits. >> > May be my mistake, I'll check it later > It's like that I can't use entire the disk (/dev/sda, partitionless) formatted with reiserfs, when I use grub-1.9

Re: Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system.

2011-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: > 2011/6/23 xinglp : >> 2011/6/23 xinglp : >>> Grub-1.99 show "symbol grub_xputs not found" on 32bits system. But it >>> works well on 64bits. >>> >> May be my mistake, I'll check it later >> > > It's like that I can't use entire the disk (/dev/sda, partitionless) > formatted with r

How is this possible?

2011-06-22 Thread Webmaster
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