Re: A few install points

2007-07-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Baho Utot wrote these words on 07/20/07 17:53 CST: > Actually the BLFS works so well that I use it to install packages I want to > use onto fedora core 6 and CENTOS 5. I would rather use the BLFS book than > to use yum and rpm, The book just works better and without problems. Way cool! Thanks

Re: A few install points

2007-07-20 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday 19 July 2007 9:28 pm, Randy McMurchy wrote: > David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 20:16 CST: > > Taking my own route with this build stuff hasn't turned out to well for > > me. I usually get bitten by something after working on it for a few > > hours. Maybe the reason this instal

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:00 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Not to be s schmuck, but do you guys use the book's instructions to > build the JDK? Och, Randy, the last time I tried was about 4 years ago. Heck, I don't remember what I had for breakfast today much less why I ran into trouble back the

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Randy McMurchy wrote: > David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 20:16 CST: > > >> Taking my own route with this build stuff hasn't turned out to well for >> me. I usually get bitten by something after working on it for a few >> hours. Maybe the reason this install went so well was that I fo

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 20:16 CST: > Taking my own route with this build stuff hasn't turned out to well for > me. I usually get bitten by something after working on it for a few > hours. Maybe the reason this install went so well was that I followed > all of the instructions

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Randy McMurchy wrote: > David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 19:48 CST: > > >> You say you built JDK-6u2? That's not the supported version in the book. >> Did you follow the same steps or did you have your own route? >> > > I just kind of wing-it and play it by ear. With the JDK, it

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Barron wrote these words on 07/19/07 19:48 CST: > You say you built JDK-6u2? That's not the supported version in the book. > Did you follow the same steps or did you have your own route? I just kind of wing-it and play it by ear. With the JDK, it was really straight-forward. I used DJ's pa

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 07/19/07 18:50 CST: > > >> Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including >> OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck >> with JDK so now I just take the coward's way out and install

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
Peter B. Steiger wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 18:37 -0400, David Barron wrote: > >> Next up for me is to build the JDK so keep your fingers crossed. >> > > Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including > OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 07/19/07 18:50 CST: > Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including > OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck > with JDK so now I just take the coward's way out and install the > binaries. I just don't get

Re: A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 18:37 -0400, David Barron wrote: > Next up for me is to build the JDK so keep your fingers crossed. Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck with JDK so now I just take the cow

A few install points

2007-07-19 Thread David Barron
My wife and son have been out of town the last few days, so I've been keeping myself busy by building LFS and BLFS from the dev book. Everything has gone very smoothly and it's mostly done at this point. Going through the BLFS packages that I need I noticed a couple of things that I thought I