Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:41 CST: >> Randy McMurchy wrote: >>> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:29 CST: The glibc folks left it out for a couple of versions and then put it back after a lot of complaints. LFS 7.1 had the problem of l

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:41 CST: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:29 CST: >>> The glibc folks left it out for a couple of versions and then put it >>> back after a lot of complaints. LFS 7.1 had the problem of leaving it out. >> Which mean

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:29 CST: >> The glibc folks left it out for a couple of versions and then put it >> back after a lot of complaints. LFS 7.1 had the problem of leaving it out. > > Which means the text in the BLFS book should be modified ever so sl

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:29 CST: > The glibc folks left it out for a couple of versions and then put it > back after a lot of complaints. LFS 7.1 had the problem of leaving it out. Which means the text in the BLFS book should be modified ever so slightly. -- Randy rmlscsi:

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a bit confused with the language in the libtirpc instructions. > Paraphrasing, > it says that /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h should not be installed by default if the > version of Glibc is >=2.14, but I just installed current LFS-Development that > includes Glibc-2

[blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I am a bit confused with the language in the libtirpc instructions. Paraphrasing, it says that /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h should not be installed by default if the version of Glibc is >=2.14, but I just installed current LFS-Development that includes Glibc-2.16 and that header file *is* insta

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > On 12/04/2011 04:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> DJ Lucas wrote: >>> On 12/03/2011 06:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> I had noticed functions up to des_crypt.c were removed in debian, and was attempting to merge their changes with yours by hand. >>> Actually, removal of des_cr

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-04 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/04/2011 04:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> What 'reversal of the GLibc changes in LFS' are you referring to? >> >> -- Bruce Oops...no, I meant upstream's changes, not LFS's changes (well actually the LFS changes too as that patch puts the headers back, but it also allows us to link to

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-04 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/04/2011 04:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 12/03/2011 06:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> I had noticed functions up to des_crypt.c were removed in debian, >>> and was attempting to merge their changes with yours by hand. >> Actually, removal of des_crypt.c is all that is req

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > On 12/03/2011 06:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> I had noticed functions up to des_crypt.c were removed in debian, >> and was attempting to merge their changes with yours by hand. > > Actually, removal of des_crypt.c is all that is required if we avoid > upstream's ridiculous pol

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-04 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 06:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > I had noticed functions up to des_crypt.c were removed in debian, > and was attempting to merge their changes with yours by hand. Actually, removal of des_crypt.c is all that is required if we avoid upstream's ridiculous policy of "break stuff to light

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:14:51PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:16:19PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I don't particularly care about NIS myself, but libtirpc is still broken > >> without your NIS patch, even after re-exporting the glibc > >> symbols.

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:16:19PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: >> I don't particularly care about NIS myself, but libtirpc is still broken >> without your NIS patch, even after re-exporting the glibc >> symbols...specifically _des_crypt_call is still undefined. >> > Does the attac

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:16:19PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > I don't particularly care about NIS myself, but libtirpc is still broken > without your NIS patch, even after re-exporting the glibc > symbols...specifically _des_crypt_call is still undefined. > Does the attached patch help in this ca

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > I don't particularly care about NIS myself, but libtirpc is still broken > without your NIS patch, even after re-exporting the glibc > symbols...specifically _des_crypt_call is still undefined. Yes, that's why the patch is required. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 11:31 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> What a disaster! Even RedHat hasn't got this far yet. There is more we >> need to do to GLibc than install the headers. I'm suggesting that we >> follow suit, as the rest of the distros have, and re-export the symbols >> in LFS and c

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > What a disaster! Even RedHat hasn't got this far yet. There is more we > need to do to GLibc than install the headers. I'm suggesting that we > follow suit, as the rest of the distros have, and re-export the symbols > in LFS and continue to install the headers until a *complet

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 11:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> What is the purpose of the libtirpc patch? It builds fine without it on >> development LFS. I notice that the rpc-headers tarball does not contain >> all of the rpcsvc/ headers, is this the reason for the patch? From a >> casual glance

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > What is the purpose of the libtirpc patch? It builds fine without it on > development LFS. I notice that the rpc-headers tarball does not contain > all of the rpcsvc/ headers, is this the reason for the patch? From a > casual glance, it doesn't appear so. I don't see anything i

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 09:39 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > This question still stands. I was not able to find anything readily > available. > > -- DJ Lucas What a disaster! Even RedHat hasn't got this far yet. There is more we need to do to GLibc than install the headers. I'm suggesting that we follow suit, as th

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 08:40 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 12/03/2011 08:05 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> What is the purpose of the libtirpc patch? It builds fine without it on >> development LFS. I notice that the rpc-headers tarball does not contain >> all of the rpcsvc/ headers, is this the reason for the patch? Fr

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 12/03/2011 08:05 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > What is the purpose of the libtirpc patch? It builds fine without it on > development LFS. I notice that the rpc-headers tarball does not contain > all of the rpcsvc/ headers, is this the reason for the patch? From a > casual glance, it doesn't appear so. I

[blfs-dev] libtirpc better explanations/implementation

2011-12-03 Thread DJ Lucas
What is the purpose of the libtirpc patch? It builds fine without it on development LFS. I notice that the rpc-headers tarball does not contain all of the rpcsvc/ headers, is this the reason for the patch? From a casual glance, it doesn't appear so. I don't see anything in the three omitted fil