t;
> Example:
>
> cat > test << EOF
> TEST=$PWD
> EOF
>
> cat > test "EOF"
> TEST=$PWD
> EOF
>
`huh?`
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 06:50:57AM -0600, Scott wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:49:27AM -0500, William Harrington wrote:
> > >
> > > If you do cat << EOF
> > >
> > > Then a
misc/
[0 ~]$ sudo umount duck
[0 ~]$ ls duck
test.txt
[0 ~]$ cat duck/test.txt
Hello World
[0 ~]$
HTH,
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menu.lst' - with a lower-case 'ell' - that would explain quite a
bit.
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deutsche (?) idiom! I like it.
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ll I be doing
this whole thing over again soon?
TIA,
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t of not being backwards-compatible with 6.3!
So that is why I went with the 6.4-rc. Well, I've been piddling around
the edges long enough, I guess I'll wait a while for BLFS to catch up.
Feels odd to be on the 'cutting edge' out here in nowhere-land
Scott Swanson
Pendroy,
take all the fun out of it, though.
Viewing it through the eyes of someone for whom English is
a second tongue, I can imagine it being a daunting task to make it
through the book.
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e-populate the
virtual filesystems.
HTH,
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sv gcc /usr/bin/cc
>
The 'target' of ln -s needn't actually exist, it is just a name. Try,
eg:
$ mkdir test && cd test
$ ln -sv bar foo
'foo' -> 'bar'
$ cat foo
cat: foo: No such file or directory
$ echo "
it, and managed to retrieve
'most' of it. (using my brand-new lfs as a rescue tool). ISTR that
when I used the cp -a, it didn't pick up any files or dirs beginning
with a period. Like .emacs, .postfix/, etc. But that the tar method
did. I could be wrong, it was a stressful
r try to boot
> the new system, you will run into all kinds of issues.
Yes, but the OP asks the interesting question: What if the host system
is, say, lfs 6.1 and you want to build 6.4. Can Chapter 5 be skipped,
and if not, then why not?
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I think he was correcting your English; you had written 'a obslete'
and it should have been 'an obslete'. Actually, it should have been
'an obsolete' as that is the correct spelling.
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ll key for one
when inputting numbers, so I custom-rolled a numeric input routine to
take care of it. Was just doing some work with a database from this
company the other day: There were a lot of zipcodes with ells mixed in
to the numbers. Maybe I shouldn't have been so enabling back then
Sc
, and am having some problems. If you know what I
have done, I would be very greatfull.
Scott
P.S. I think what you have done for the linux community is great, keep it up!!
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t a week ago.
U, I think he was announcing his own success in building 6.1.1,
and looking for congratulations rather than sarcasm.
So, Jeremy, well-done!
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> so you know.
> I don't know exactly what it means but it's somthing like "Take what this
> evaluates to
> and stick it here"
Those back-ticks cause more trouble Why not use the $( .... )
syntax, which has been available in bash for quite some t
His son, though, newly-returned from university and full of
radical ideas, insisted on keeping time the new-fangled way.
Their kitchen featured two clocks, one on the west wall set to Pappy's
time, and one on the east to Sonny's.
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> exit
> END FILE
>
> Then simply call:
> echo build-package-name.txt | su
I tried that before. On my system (Mandrake 10.1) I get:
stdin must be tty
Thinking about it, behaviour other than this would be an immense
security breach, no?
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> Serial HOWTO document.
Your best friend in getting the modem to work will be wvdial. Seems to
me a lot of the newer distros don't include a lot of support for
modems, and presume there are no poor schmucks out here in the sticks
stuck with dialup. Msg me
When I run configure for glibc-2.11.1 I get the following warning:
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: cpu
This is the out-put of version-check.sh
bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release
/bin/sh -> /bin/dash
Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.1-system.20100303
yacc not found
bzip2, Version 1.0.5, 10-Dec-2007.
Coreutils: 7.4
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
GNU Awk 3.1.6
/usr/bin/awk
I am still getting this warning:
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: section "Present But Cannot
Thanks for the response, but I think I am going to take the rest of
the week to brush up on some basic bash scripting. I have a feeling
that I jumped into this a bit quick.
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what does the two dots and slash mean? ../(some command)
How does that factor into it?
Thank in advance,
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irst time...sending me 4
unhelpful e-mails only to say you won't help.
- Original Message -
From: Tony Sauri
To: Scott Robertson ; LFS Support List
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions
On Thu, 03 May 2012 17:23, Tony
CC-4.x and
/mnt/lfs/sources/GCC-Build
is that right?
- Original Message -
From: Philippe Delavalade
To: Scott Robertson
Cc: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions
Le jeudi 03 mai à 09:47, Scott Robert
upport list,
which is where I am at now.
I think I am used to a more traditional "Sign up for a login account, login,
and then post to a forum" format rather than people e-mailing each other, but I
think I am getting the idea now.
-Scott
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Fro
e(s) may change.
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To: LFS Support List
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:15:57PM +0200, Philippe Delavalade wrote:
> Le jeudi 03 mai à 15:16, Scott Robertson a é
>> I started reading 7.0, and I was doing OK until about Chapter 5. Until I
>> realized that some of my directories didn't seem right. Somehow I ended up
>> with just a "sources" directory on the LFS partition. I'm not a hardened
>> expert in Linux yet, but I do have some knowledge and I have a
I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I
have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but
can"t get to it from mnt/lfs/sources.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14.
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scott@scott-K52F ~ $ su - lfs
Password:
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS
/mnt/lfs
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ ls -l /sources
ls: cannot access /sources: No such file or directory
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, spiky wrote:
> On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote:
>
> I kee
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ bash version-check.sh
bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release
/bin/sh -> /bin/bash
Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22.90.20120924
bison (GNU Bison) 2.5
/usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc
bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
Coreutils: 8.13
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2
fin
So where did you put the sources? The book says:
mkdir -v $LFS/sources
chmod -v a+wt $LFS/sources
I put the sources where the book said to.
What are you using for $LFS? That is,
echo $LFSlfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS
/mnt/lfs
I thought I was putting it on sda6 (also have windows 7 and Linux
Also, what is the output of:
$ mount
$ fdisk -l
This is from normal user acct. and not the lfs acct.
scott@scott-K52F ~ $ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse
ng in e-mail?
>
> scott maxwell wrote:
> > Also, what is the output of:
> >
> > $ mount
> > $ fdisk -l
> >
> > This is from normal user acct. and not the lfs acct.
>
> Yes. You haven't finished everything needed before changing to the lfs
>
ys at the local linux user group said not to do this LFS project.
Guess I'm just stubborn.
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 6:02 PM, scott maxwell wrote:
> $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS
>
>
> where does this command go?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrot
On Jun 2, 2013 6:36 PM, "Ken Moffat" wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:13:10PM -0400, scott maxwell wrote:
> > $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS
> > where does this command go?
> >
> > I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3
Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote on 10-02-07 23:04:
>
>> Colin Dean wrote these words on 02/10/07 15:53 CST:
>>
>>
>>> Ideas/help/anything welcome.
>>>
>> In times like those, I usually rely on my friends Jim Beam, Johnny
>> Walker and Jack Daniels. Oh yeah, I sometimes
Colin Dean wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:54:33 +0200
>> "Tijnema !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm testing if it works now, I already put the cable down into my
>>> toilet and waiting for google to connect me :) I hope they work on
>>> sunday too :)
>>
>> I'll bet the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Be sure not to use BitTorrent also. It might flood your bathroom.;)
>
> On 4/1/07, Victor Tanvuia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Maybe your toilet is not in the coverage area. Try moving it around to get a
>> better signal. :D
>>
>>
Is it possible to build LFS on a VM particularly VirtualBox-1.6.2 using
the LiveCD as the Host under VBox? Any recommended initial settings for
the Host/Guest configurations? Also the Guest Additions for Linux would
not be useful until well into BLFS?
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I have seen in the archives mention of installing VirtualBox on a system
created by LFS. I am wondering if anyone has used VirtualBox to run the
LiveCD to create a Linux system on a VM. If there are anyone that's done
this, are there any gotchas that I should be looking out for?
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ware" configuration, so I think one has to watch out for funky
> messages during boot though..
>
> My question was about caveats and experiences from installing LFS from
> inside a virtual machine.
>
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andy wrote:
> I am using the lfs 6.3 book with the lfs liveCD as my installation
> medium and when trying to compile it exits with the error given below
>
> //ERROR
> gcc -B/tools/bin/ ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/signal.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2
> -Wall -Winline -Wwrite-strings -
I've been working under the assumption that prior to unpacking a
packages tarball that you create a directory using the package name
-build ie: glibc-build. Then change to the build directory to unpack the
tarball, further moving to the first level directory created by the
action of unpacking t
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote these words on 08/11/08 16:27 CST:
>
>> I've been working under the assumption that prior to unpacking a
>> packages tarball that you create a directory using the package name
>> -build ie: glibc-build. Then change to
to watch
> out for funky messages during boot though..
>
> My question was about caveats and experiences from installing LFS from
> inside a virtual machine.
>
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have seen in
Just realized that I did the 2nd pass of binutils-2.17 build from within
the source directory instead of the build directory. Is this going to be
a problem with the rest of the build? If it is, can I undo it and how,
or do I need to start from scratch again?
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just realized that I did the 2nd pass of binutils-2.17 build from within
>> the source directory instead of the build directory. Is this going to be
>> a problem with t
When I do ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix="", it'll terminate
with the error;
configure: error: Cannot find tinfo, ncurses or termcap libraries
I am sure that I installed ncurses as all of the libncurses* files exist
in /usr/lib/. I'm not sure about termcap or tinfo as I haven't been ab
Satish Patel wrote:
> Regards,
>
> Satish Patel
>
>
> Quoting Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> When I do ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix="", it'll terminate
>> with the error;
>>
>> configure: error: Cann
Completed the build using Virtualbox virtual machine. On the first boot
I get the following:
Booting 'LFS 6.3
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.22.5 root=/dev/hda3
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
menu.lst is
Adam Roach wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
>> Completed the build using Virtualbox virtual machine. On the first boot
>> I get the following:
>>
>> Booting 'LFS 6.3
>>
>> root (hd0,0)
>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Scott Castaline wrote:
> Adam Roach wrote:
>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> Completed the build using Virtualbox virtual machine. On the first boot
>>> I get the following:
>>>
>>> Booting 'LFS 6.3
>>>
>>> root (hd0,0)
&
Scott Castaline wrote:
> Running LFS-6.3/BLFS-6.3 on virtualbox and decided to move the original
> system to a larger virtual disk.
>
> Original disk 8GB 3 partitions 1 = /boot, 2 = swap, 3 = /
> New disk 20GB 3 partitions; same as above just different sizes.
>
> Created th
es? I realize that new kernels name ide
drives sdx and that's fine. I don't need them to be labeled hdx. I simply want
them to be recognized by the kernel.
Thank you for helping with this issue which is stumping me.
Scott Kopel
English Department
Florida State University
850 339 0523
You guys are generous and amazing. Thank you for the responses. I've been
working on this issue for weeks, googling everywhere etc.. and the solution was
so simple once I had help from the lfs community. I'm writing this so that
maybe a future searcher might find it.
here's my solution:
I insta
not done)
something that would cause this, but I have no idea where to start. I
have rebooted the system and redone chapter 6 up through 6.8, but there
was no change. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
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Chris Staub wrote:
Scott Loewen wrote:
I am working on LFS 6.1 and have completed it through section 6.8. I
am using the LFS LiveCD. I am also working through the more control
and package management stuff. When I tried to switch to the
linux-libc-headers user to install it, I received the
Chris Staub wrote:
You shouldn't be copying anything (except of course what the book says
to...ie su to /tools/bin). Yes, su should have "/tools" in those
paths. I was about to ask if you recompiled coreutils as the lfs user,
but then I remembered that you're in the chroot. If you've follo
/* end confdefs.h. */
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can locate or fin gcc just
fine, and as far as I know the permissions are set correctly: tools
owned by root:root 755
same with tools/bin and gcc
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > configure:2634: gcc --version &5
> > ../glibc-2.3.6/configure: line 2635: /tools/bin/gcc: No such file or
> > directory
> > configure:
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > >
> > > $ readelf -l /tools/bin/gcc | grep interpreter
> > >
> > > If
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > >
> > > $ readelf -l /tools/bin/gcc | grep interpreter
> > >
> > > If
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:54 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure but I think I found it in
> > $LFS/tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3
> >
> > On viewing it I found this:
> >
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 18:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that gcc is the only one pointing to lib instead of tools/lib
> > all the others point to tools/lib on the readelf -l command and it looks
&g
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:53 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > all packages built and installed between 1st adjust and gcc 2nd pass are
> > ok they reflect the correct /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2, only gcc is wrong.
Is there a book yet for BLFS that follows LFS-6.2 yet? Or can I follow
BLFS 6.1?
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> On 8/22/06, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Now the only
> > problem that I'm aware of is my delete key doesn't work, although I
> > think I may have fixed it just haven't
doing this in a dual boot situation, it's not too convenient to reboot
to the other distribution to check on something else and then boot back
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]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/elf/tst-leaks1-mem] Error 127
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/elf/noload-mem] Error 127
make[1]: *** [elf/tests] Error 2
make: *** [check] Error 2
I assume I have failed?
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Weird.
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On 29.11.2011 09:49, David Scott Williams wrote:
> Actually, this is my entire list:
> make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-bu
rror 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.14.1'
make: *** [install] Error 2
I have no name!:/sources/glibc-build#
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On 29.11.2011
help
Dave
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On 29.11.2011 10:27, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 29/11/2011 10:13, David Scott Williams wrote:
>> I feel silly replying to myself again
With reasons that have become crystal clear this morning :)
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On 29.11.2011 11:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> David Scott Williams wr
-build#
:)
Joy.
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On 29.11.2011 11:10, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> On 29/11/2011 11:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> David Scott Williams wrote:
>>> Here is the
Anyone know an alternate location for:
http://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.39.tar.gz
?
The site has been down for a few days (503) ... and the copy I DL'd was
incomplete...
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On 01.12.2011 07:27, David Scott Williams wrote:
> Anyone know an alternate location for:
>
>
> http://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.39.tar.gz
> ?
>
> The site has been down for a few days (503) ... and the copy I DL'd
> was inc
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