Re: [lfs-dev] check and libsubunit

2013-11-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:25:25 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, Have you seen the thread on -support starting on nov 4: Check-0.9.10 can't find subunit/child.h - LFS 7.4? It turns out that if both libsubunit and pkgconfig are installed on the host, check's

Re: [lfs-dev] make-4.0 checks

2013-10-22 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:41:52 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran jhalfs against the latest files and had one anomaly in the new make-4.0 checks: functions/file .. *** Test died (functions/file): Opened read-only file! FAILED

Re: [lfs-dev] Tickets

2013-10-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:02:13 +0200, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Actually, chapter 7 has never been updated for systemd, even in the systemd book. Not sure it is needed though. When I made the tickets, that book was maintained, so I thought the tickets might help. But there

Re: [lfs-dev] kbd-2.0.0 seems to require check

2013-09-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:00:27 +0200, Igor Živković cont...@igor-zivkovic.from.hr wrote: checking for CHECK... no configure: error: Package requirements (check = 0.9.4) were not met: No package 'check' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed

Re: [lfs-dev] Minor typographical corrections

2013-09-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Thanks for the patch! If Bruce doesn't pick this up before I do this evening (GMT) then I'll apply it. One additional observation... On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:32:06 +, theart...@zoho.com wrote: Index: 7.4-rc2/chapter07/udev.xml

Re: [lfs-dev] Host System Requirements

2013-08-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:20:43 +0800, JC Chong jayceech...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, The HSR may need some updating. Using an LFS 6.6 host with GCC 4.4.x, I wasn't able to build kmod 14, as I keep getting: undefined reference to `_Static_assert' errors. kmod 13 builds just fine though. (LFS

Re: [lfs-dev] [lfs-book] r10321 - in trunk/BOOK: chapter06 chapter08

2013-08-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:46:07 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Armin K. wrote: On 08/20/2013 02:55 PM, bdu...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: bdubbs Date: Tue Aug 20 05:55:18 2013 New Revision: 10321 -vmlinux-linux-version;-lfs-version;-linux-version;, and

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Package Currency Check - 2013-08-13

2013-08-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:20:00 +0100, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:22:07AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 08:39:57PM +0100, Matt Burgess wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 15:00 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: 103-automake:FAIL:

Re: [lfs-dev] Planning ahead

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:07:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: With that in mind, I would like to freeze LFS (mostly) on August 15 and release LFS-7.4-rc1. The target date for LFS-7.4 will be 1 September. During the freeze period, some packages may be updated, but not gcc,

Re: [lfs-dev] Udev-198 and LVM

2013-03-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:13:54 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Just for you to know: LVM could not be built with udev-lfs-198-2. Builds OK with 198-3. Thanks. Thanks, Pierre. With Armin's patch now in, we should be able to prevent issues like that from occurring again.

Re: [lfs-dev] 7.3 check-0.9.9

2013-03-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:20:23 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: I really meant --with-sysroot. That switch is defined in ld's configure, not the top one. (it might be better to use --with-sysroot=/, but --with-sysroot works for me). I *always* forget about binutils'

Re: [lfs-dev] one digit missing in

2013-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:00:48 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Not a big deal, but this should be: !ENTITY version SVN-20130227 instead of !ENTITY version SVN-2013027 Thanks, Pierre. Fixed now. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:22:00 -0600, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: at least using jhalfs. It seems to build the executable OK, but then makeinfo --split-size=500 --split-size=500 --no-split -I . -I ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/doc \ -I

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd branch created

2013-02-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:31:05 +1300, cybertao psyber...@gmail.com wrote: I just finished building this, ironed out my mistakes (journald barfing because there's no machine-id is a good one!), and couldn't be more pleased with myself. And immensely grateful for all the work that went into this.

Re: [lfs-dev] Using period/full-stop punctuation in xml commandcontexts.

2013-02-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:02:41 +, lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote: Generates header files that can be read by commandgettext./command Shouldn't the '.' be outside of the xml 'command' tag Right you are. Well spotted. Fixed in r10137. Regards, Matt. --

Re: [lfs-dev] Allow override for logging to /run/var/bootlog

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:48:28 +0100, Armin K. kre...@email.com wrote: Also, I just merged expat into systemd branch, but there is no commit message. I am subscribed to lfs-book. What am I doing wrong? Bruce already covered the commit message issue. I've actually got all of systemd and its

Re: [lfs-dev] No entry in 'Rationale' page for 'Libpipeline' ?

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:45:36 +, lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote: Hi, There appears to be no entry for 'Libpipeline' on the 'Rationale ...' page ('.../prologue/package-choices...') in the lfs book, for lfs versions SVN-20130211, 7.2, 7.1, and 7.0 . If a package is deemed

Re: [lfs-dev] lfs-book r10042 make error

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:44:27 +0800, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: Creating and cleaning /home/username/tmp Processing bootscripts... Validating the book... index.xml:57: element varlistentry: validity error : Element varlistentry content does not follow the DTD, expecting (term+ , listitem),

Re: [lfs-dev] OT: Re: How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:09:50 -0400, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: The file system is ext3 the same as on each box. Rsync is not an option as only the desktop machine has it at this time. cp -av doesn't work either, the copy never happens but the result in the term shows every

Re: [lfs-dev] How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:14:26 + (UTC), Chris W. wagnerlia-li...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I wanted to better understand the inner workings of systemd. Just having finished a LFS install on a test server, I thought LFS 7.2 might be a good basis for this. snip I hope you'll find this

Re: [lfs-dev] tzdata2012e.tar.gz

2012-08-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
And further to Ken's observation, this took about 2 hrs 15 to hit my inbox after posting. Bruce, would you mind taking a look at mailman to see if it's too busy processing spam or whatever it was that caused this last time please? Thanks, Matt. --

Re: [lfs-dev] script ifdown ip addr show ${IFACE} | grep 'inet' notwork.

2012-08-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:15:32 +0800, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should replace ip addr show ${IFACE} with ip -f inet addr show ${IFACE}. It would help if you explained *why* you think this needs changing. Does the current code not work? If so, how does the bug/issue manifest itself?

Re: [lfs-dev] [LFS Trac] #3151: Bison 2.6.2

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:18:55 +0200, Armin K. kre...@email.com wrote: Heh sorry, changelog says 2.6.1 was added 2 days ago. Doh, mea culpa. Bison had a new release while I was working on my patch set. I bumped the version in packages.ent and forgot to bump it in the changelog. I'll fix up

Re: [lfs-dev] persistent net rules

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:05:32 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Two questions still arise. Does LFS need to be able to support this unusual configuration out of the box? Does the virtual multi-nic configuration need to be set in the udev rules prior to the first boot? Well, I

Re: [lfs-dev] persistent net rules

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:24:31 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: According to the udev-182 rule, the vmware nics have a mac address of 00:0c:29:xx:xx:xx or 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx. That matches the only version of vmware that I have access to. That rule,

Re: [lfs-dev] libgcc_s.so breakage

2012-06-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:07:37 +0100, Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: Hello All From the that's what you get for touching that dept: I've been testing the development versions of gcc and glibc (from svn and git) and lately I've seen some breakage related to libgcc_s.so. Current

Re: [lfs-dev] Split systemd upstream's response

2012-06-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:40:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Armin K. wrote: For those of you not following systemd-devel mailing list, here are some responses from Lennart regarding systemd and udev split. I figured we'd get that type of response, if any at all. Given the

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:57:21 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest this topic be dropped as moot. The discussion doesn't add anything and we are agreed that today 3.4.1 is the latest stable version. On the contrary, I think it's important that folks here understand a bit

Re: [lfs-dev] libgmp.so versions in LFS 6.6, 6.7 - can this be right?

2012-06-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 12:22 +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: Comparing my old LFS 6.6 with my new LFS 6.7 I see that: LFS 6.6 (gmp-5.0.0): libgmp.a libgmp.la libgmp.so libgmp.so.3 libgmp.so.3.6.0 LFS 6.7 (gmp-5.0.1): libgmp.a

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS SVN and Systemd Report

2012-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 29 May 2012 23:42:41 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Otherwise I think the patch is good. If someone (Matt?) can test and confirm that it works, I'll put it in the book. Sure, I'll try to kick off a test build tonight, once I've committed my pending patches. Thanks

Re: [lfs-dev] linux-3.4 needs patch to build

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:02:17 -0700 (PDT), Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Digging into this since yesterday evening, discovered first that 3.4 is dev and stable version is 3.3.7, second, the error is well known:

Re: [lfs-dev] Minor nitpick

2012-04-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:01:33 -0600, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:48:37 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the middle of a jh build right now. Just finishing up Chapter 5. I'll take a look when it completes. The toolchain

Re: [lfs-dev] Minor nitpick

2012-04-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:23:58 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: On 4/23/12 1:11 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: The reason is that /tools/bin/su cannot work for a normal user, because the setuid bit cannot be set at install in chapter 5 (if installing as user lfs).

Re: [lfs-dev] Minor nitpick

2012-04-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:48:37 -0500, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the middle of a jh build right now. Just finishing up Chapter 5. I'll take a look when it completes. The toolchain built without complaint. Thanks. Note that the sed added in r9799 masks the test failures

Re: [lfs-dev] uname -i, -p show 'unknown' after update to coreutils-8.16

2012-04-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
That's because we (LFS) dropped the uname patch from our build instructions because upstream won't take it in its current form. If my understanding is correct, the correct way of implementing this feature is by a combination of changes in the kernel Glibc. I don't have the skill necessary to do

Re: [lfs-dev] glibc-2.15 with i686

2012-03-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:01:59 +0200, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, I've tried the last svn version on my old pentium-m laptop. 1- The error: /mnt/lfs/sources/libc-build/math/s_frexp.os.dt -MT /mnt/lfs/sources/libc-build/math/s_frexp.os

Re: [lfs-dev] note about gcc-47+glibc-2.15 builds

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:32:41 +0200, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, Successful build up to gcc-pass2 as per Jeremy's new build method, gcc-4.7+glibc-2.15: Thanks for your notes. For the time being, I'm going to make the minimum changes necessary to get LFS built with

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:27 +, Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:18 + Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I must admit to being really confused by your need for these workarounds. Me too. It makes me feel stupid. I think you're

Re: [lfs-dev] test on LFS 7.1-rc1: ICA + suggestion

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:02:24 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Should be corrected in current upstream patch list. Do not know if you LFS devs think it is a big issue (having math.h needlessly included when ncurses C++ bindings are used). I suggest waiting for the next

Re: [lfs-dev] jhalfs's error log

2012-02-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:30:06 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Le 17/02/2012 07:37, xinglp a écrit : This is the log produced by jhalfs, some errors in it, but it worked well when build lfs. Thanks for the report. I knew that, but the reason is outside jhalfs. It is in

Re: [lfs-dev] A suggested fix

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:51:34 +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL jmeng...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi, An user suggested some fix for the book, in particular for wget-list. Those links don't exist in the current SVN trunk version of the book at

Re: [lfs-dev] kmod missing lsmod

2012-02-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:31 -0500, Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Was just reviewing your kmod build instructions - haven't built it yet myself, but it's noticeably missing lsmod - shouldn't this be another symlink to kmod? Yup, if you look closely you'll notice I

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest Changes

2012-02-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:44:55 -0600, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I built LFS tonight on a kvm VM. Here are a couple of comments: The total build time was 6.3 hours. The last build (LFS 7.0) on the same machine, but on the HW was 4.1 hours. That's a 50% increase in time. I'm

Re: [lfs-dev] Kmod-4 test error, svn revision 9714

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:11:26 +, Firerat fire...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I noticed a small problem with kmod-4 in the current svn ( 9714 ) the book details ./test/test-loaded to perform tests, however for me this fails ( no file found ) if I instead do make check the

Re: [lfs-dev] ICA with jhalfs

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:27:04 +0100, Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr wrote: Hi, I wonder if anybody still uses jhalfs, and if he(she) has tried ICA lately. I use jhalfs all the time, but I've never done an ICA build with it. ICA is broken because of the part in glibc's

Re: [lfs-dev] Udev-177 Kmod-3 WIP patch

2012-01-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:47:10 -0600, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to step on Matt's toes, but I'm going to make a change in the bootscripts and section 8.2/8.3 in a couple of minutes. No probs, Bruce. As per $subject, my patch is WIP, so feel free to make any changes.

Re: [lfs-dev] libnl and iproute2

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Markku Pesonen tour...@gmail.com wrote iproute2 doesn't even use the headers. See this commit in upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commit;h=13603f6a9e46f08576f6284a0ef1ce1fbf94ffe0 Nice! I'll try a libnl-less build tonight with relevant seds to prevent

Re: [lfs-dev] Chapter 6.19

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 12/12/11 22:12, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, At chapter 6.19, bzip2, in lfs 7.0 and newer, I note: Compile and check the package: make A French user tells me that we should add make check. A quick look at my logs shows that 'make' does in fact compile and check the Bzip2

Re: [lfs-dev] gettext configure error

2011-11-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:19:59 -0600, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 11/26/2011 10:02 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: On 11/26/2011 09:27 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: Latest gettext configure can hang in chapter 5 on checking where .elc files should go... if emacs is installed on the host. Should

Re: [lfs-dev] Binutils 2.22

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 22/11/2011 19:49, Ken Moffat wrote: For LFS-svn, there is *always* a possibility of breakage as soon as you get into BLFS. Unlikely, but possible. With a fair wind, those sort of problems will mostly be caught by the time a new LFS is released. To be honest, I can't remember the last

Re: New Kernel

2011-10-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25/10/2011 20:01, Matthew Burgess wrote: On 25/10/2011 19:54, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, I am busy with blfs right now. Can you do both tickets? Sure thing. Hi Bruce, As you'll have seen, I've just closed the last 3 tickets for 7.0. I think we're all done now, ready for the release

Re: New Kernel

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25/10/2011 19:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Reference http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2937 3.0.8 or 3.1? Changing the kernel is not particularly hard, but we need to go ahead and publish 7.0. -rc2 has been out for 2 weeks and there have only been minor changes. We need to keep a

Re: New Kernel

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25/10/2011 19:54, Bruce Dubbs wrote: OK, I am busy with blfs right now. Can you do both tickets? Sure thing. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Some newbie thoughts

2011-10-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:48:17 +0200, feralert feral...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As I am new in LFS and this is my first attempt, I have a couple of comments that might help make the book easier to follow (at least to a non-english newbie like me). Firstly, welcome! - While going through

Re: server problem ?

2011-10-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 16/10/2011 19:50, Ken Moffat wrote: Is there a problem with the LFS server ? I'm getting mail from the lists, but I can't connect to linuxfromscratch.org using a browser (times out), and if I try 'svn up' the remote connection is reported as getting closed. And ssh appears not to work -

Re: man-db need PKG_CONFIG=/tools/bin/true to be built.

2011-10-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 08/10/2011 16:33, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Right. I'll fix that today. -- Bruce Thanks for that, Bruce. My working copy had that in (it had to have done, otherwise my jhalfs based build would have failed), but somehow it got lost. It must have just been a quilt-related screw up on my

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/10/2011 23:24, Matthew Burgess wrote: On 05/10/2011 22:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: That sounds like a nice simple approach. Does it still place its .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig? Hi Bruce, Here's the complete patch I've kicked off a test build with. Your machine may just beat mine

Re: RFC: Fixing udev_retry

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:45:13 -0700, Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: See the attached patch for what I propose we do, at least in the short term, or possibly longer as well. It changes udev_retry to (in addition to using --type=failed) read /etc/sysconfig/udev_retry (name

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:53:52 -0400, John Stanley jpsinthe...@verizon.net wrote: There doesn't seem to be an easy way to turn off the libffi requirement, which is unfortunate, as libglib itself doesn't need it. On the other hand, I've been building lfs/blfs-like systems for several years

Re: suggestion for a modified chapter 6 build of glib

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/10/2011 22:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: That sounds like a nice simple approach. Does it still place its .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig? Hi Bruce, Here's the complete patch I've kicked off a test build with. Your machine may just beat mine though, if you want to verify it :-) Regards,

Re: Coreutils tests

2011-10-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 30/09/2011 00:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: The help-version test is doing: for i in $built_programs; do v=$(env $i --version | sed -n '1s/.* //p;q') break done And failing with 'env: cd: No such file or directory' $built_programs is returning: cd .. /bin/sh ./config.status

Re: Coreutils tests

2011-09-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 30/09/2011 00:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Hi, For a while now, I've had 2 test failures in coreutils, but have just ignored them. With the latest version I saw a 3rd failure, which made me relook at Coreutils' test suite. The failures I see are: misc/help-version

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 18:09, Andrew Benton wrote: It seems that glib-2.30.0 requires libffi and python. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not actually that bothered by those 2 dependencies. libffi has no dependencies itself, and Python has no mandatory dependencies, so it's only 2 packages that need to

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 19:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream: Looking at the ChangeLog, the root dependency is Add Pkg-Config as it's a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new configure switches. However, that ChangeLog entry is within a whole bunch of Util-Linux changes,

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 20:24, Matthew Burgess wrote: On 27/09/2011 19:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream: Looking at the ChangeLog, the root dependency is Add Pkg-Config as it's a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new configure switches. However, that ChangeLog entry

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 22:35, Ken Moffat wrote: With respect, Matt, it's the glib2 part that is bloat. I remember some discussion, but I forget why we did it pkg-config upstream, as of 0.26, removed the internal Glib-1 that it used to bundle, therefore forcing us to install a system-wide copy and

Re: udev_retry

2011-09-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 16/09/2011 19:09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:46:08 +0100 Matthew Burgessmatt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: So, based on the above, 5 is definitely something to look into I think. If that doesn't pan out, then I think option 2 is the next 'least

Re: udev_retry

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 15/09/2011 20:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote: snip nice description of the issue There are options about what to do right now: 1. Leave in the warning message and optionally write something about it in the book. We try, generally, to accomodate changes in upstream programs. I'll defer to

Re: udev_retry

2011-09-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 15/09/2011 20:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote: snip nice description of the issue There are options about what to do right now: 1. Leave in the warning message and optionally write something about it in the book. We try, generally, to accomodate changes in upstream programs. I'll defer to

Re: udevadm: trigger --type=failed deprecation

2011-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 12/09/2011 20:40, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matt, I saw your conversation with Kay Sievers at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17011 How do we want to address this? I'm not sure that the advice to ignore the clock setting and always use ntp is the best approach. It

Re: LFS' future server plans

2011-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 11/09/2011 19:40, Gerard Beekmans wrote: This period of time where we discuss migrations would be a good time for us to discuss any wholesome changes we might like to implement. We can start off with a new server and a clean slate instead of blindly replicating the current setup and

Re: LFS' future server plans

2011-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 12/09/2011 00:21, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:09:15AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: Maybe, moving to git instead of svn ? Git is a bitch to become comfortable with [ I dropped out of clfs when they moved to it ] but it does make branching easy. Perhaps that isn't an issue in

Re: LFS' future server plans

2011-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 12/09/2011 00:23, Gerard Beekmans wrote: Speaking of mailing lists. I wasn't going to bring it up yet but I have toyed with the idea for several years now of moving away from the idea of email based mailing lists and moving to a forum based system. Before all us old timers (myself

Re: lfs-7.0-rc1 glibc-2.14 rpc

2011-09-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 09/09/2011 19:11, Walter Webb wrote: I don't know if it's my own problem or a general one, but the directory /usr/include/rpc contains one file; netdb.h. /tools/include/rpc also has the one file. I discovered this when trying to install portmap in a completed system. Yes, this has been

Re: udev 173 requires linux 3.1 to eject dvd via button?

2011-09-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 09/09/2011 22:30, Bruce Dubbs wrote: git.kernel.org could not be found. Please check the name and try again. Several kernel.org servers were compromised recently and have been taken offline for investigation. The main website, ftp site and git repos are certainly affected by this.

Re: pkg-config tests

2011-09-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 03/09/2011 16:52, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: You modify the expected return value of a test for pkg-config and in doing so, I think you may be invalidating the test. Matt did that about 3 months ago. Yeah, so I did...sometimes 'svn annotate' sucks :) I have not yet had

Re: pkg-config tests

2011-09-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 03/09/2011 22:11, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Sep 3, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: Confirmed here with popt-1.16. It seems odd that pkg-config bundles a version of popt known to be broken, and requires a configure switch (with-installed-popt) to use a system

Re: Apply MPFR upstream patch releases

2011-09-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:59:40 -0500, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: According to the home page, we should be applying the upstream patches found here: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/allpatches See bugs section at: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/ Thanks DJ, this is now ticket

Re: Spurious file

2011-08-31 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 31/08/2011 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've noticed that there is a spurious file, /t, created in the latest builds of LFS. The file is 2 bytes long, a 0xff followed by a newline. It is a file generated by one of the tests in grep. I'm not sure how to find which test. It appears to be

Re: Spurious file

2011-08-31 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 31/08/2011 19:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Commenting out the line 'cp $in /t' does not seem to affect the test. The question now is whether to do sed -i 's:\(cp $in /t\):#\1:' tests/unibyte-bracket-expr Or just delete the /t file that's created. I'd prefer to prevent the file from being

Re: Glibc-2.14 __libc_res_nquery: Assertion `hp != hp2' failed

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:10:05 +0100, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: The patch attached to that bug applies cleanly and fixes the problem, Firefox no longer crashes. As this is a bug in glibc-2.14 (glibc-2.13 works fine and does not need patching) I think we should add this to the book

Re: 2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/08/2011 03:41, Bryan Kadzban wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: But that raises the question of what that bootscript was trying to do in the first place? So, it turns out that the actions specified by 'RUN+=' udev rules can fail for any of a variety of reasons, and this script was simply

Re: 2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:06:52 -0700, Nathan Coulson conat...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 05/08/2011 03:41, Bryan Kadzban wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: But that raises the question of what that bootscript was trying

Re: 2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/08/2011 19:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've thought for a while that there should be a location that is accessible across boots that is always available (not a mountpoint). It's a catch-22 though. How do you mount / read only (for security) and still be able to write this persistent data?

Re: 2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 05/08/2011 19:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've thought for a while that there should be a location that is accessible across boots that is always available (not a mountpoint). It's a catch-22 though. How do you mount / read only (for security) and still be able to write this persistent data?

2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, With the upgrade to Udev-173, we now see a warning that the call to 'udevadm trigger --type=failed --action=add' from S10udev is deprecated. The thread starting at http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg05039.html goes into more detail about the issues involved, but in effect,

2 Bootscript suggestions (udev_retry setclock)

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, With the upgrade to Udev-173, we now see a warning that the call to 'udevadm trigger --type=failed --action=add' from S10udev is deprecated. The thread starting at http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg05039.html goes into more detail about the issues involved, but in effect,

Re: systemd

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 03/08/2011 05:23, Lemon Lime wrote: Hello list, I have just installed systemd on my LFS-based system, and I would like to share my experience. Is there anyone here who is interested in installation instructions, boot time measurements, configuration options and other information on this

Re: missing __attribute__ ((constructor)) support?

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:20:29 +0100, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: checking whether to use .ctors/.dtors header and trailer... configure: error: missing __attribute__ ((constructor)) support?? Looks like that was caused by this change (apologies if the link wraps awkwardly!).

Re: missing __attribute__ ((constructor)) support?

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 03/08/2011 18:20, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 9:19:40 -0600 Matthew Burgessmatt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:20:29 +0100, Andrew Bentonb3n...@gmail.com wrote: checking whether to use .ctors/.dtors header and trailer... configure: error: missing

Re: missing __attribute__ ((constructor)) support?

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 03/08/2011 18:20, Andrew Benton wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 9:19:40 -0600 Matthew Burgessmatt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:20:29 +0100, Andrew Bentonb3n...@gmail.com wrote: checking whether to use .ctors/.dtors header and trailer... configure: error: missing

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-08-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 02/08/2011 21:07, xinglp wrote: 2011/8/2 Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com: I have made a very large, invasive change to LFS. All the bootscripts have been rewritten. From the change log: [bdubbs] - Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7. o Make scripts compatible with initd format (see

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-08-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 02/08/2011 22:16, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I could ask that the util-linux guys omit /run also. Alternatively, we could do something like: [ -d /run/var ] || return in the appropriate places in functions so the attempt to write is skipped if the /run/var directory is missing. What do

Re: Partial update of bootscripts

2011-07-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 20/07/2011 08:12, DJ Lucas wrote: I didn't get a chance to install yet, but did a quick walk through I've done it the other way around. I've installed them, but not done a walk through yet. It installs and boots the latest LFS-trunk without issues. I'll see if I can get a walkthrough

Re: a bug in the perl patch

2011-06-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/06/2011 02:34, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I also see a change in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/browser/trunk/perl/perl-5.10.1-libc-1.patch by Matt. I'll be glad to change this if it was an inadvertent change, but I'd like to confirm that first. Matt? That definitely looks like

Re: perl-5.14.1

2011-06-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 26/06/2011 20:09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I have found that if I change this to 1. sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools 2. make 3. cp -v perl cpan/podlators/pod2man /tools/bin 4. mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/5.14.1 5. cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.14.1 then all packages in the book build

Re: Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:14:59 -0500, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On 06/06/2011 03:07 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: I'd prefer for us not to use HJL's binutils Then don't. That patch doesn't look all that invasive..no need to add tests for local build fix, just the 3 corrected files

Re: Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:59:19 +0100, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:55:21 -0600 Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I guess the first question is, has anyone else seen this issue? No, I don't get that. It could be because I've been using eglibc

Re: Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:52:46 -0700, Bryan Kadzban br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net wrote: The problem is autoconf. By default the AC_CHECK_HEADER macro uses a set of prerequisite headers that's supposed to cover most of the common stuff on a system -- but that list is set up for full systems, not

Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, The following is taken from my build logs when using Glibc-2.13: checking cpuid.h usability... no checking cpuid.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: cpuid.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING:

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