Re: sysctl script at S90?

2005-05-15 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Matthew Burgess wrote: > If someone could tell me where to dump the script for > tcp_window_scaling, I'd appreciate it. I've currently got it in > /etc/dev.d/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling.dev but it doesn't get called. Well... this is odd. Nothing in dev.d gets called when a module is loaded that

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Ryan . Oliver
Matthew Burgess wrote: >Folks, > >I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my >reasons: > >1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex >2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose > >and fix >3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to

Re: r4277 - trunk/BOOK/gnome/core

2005-05-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:53 CST: > The editor's guide is just that: a guide. It's not a legal document. > If an editor has what he thinks is a good reason to deviate, that's OK. > We should all be trying to make the book as self-consistent as possible > as well as consistent

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Jeremy Utley
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:42 CST: Matthew Burgess wrote: As for flex, it looks like the maintainers went AWOL again :( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and 11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be p

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:42 CST: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >>As for flex, it looks >>like the maintainers went AWOL again :( >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and >>11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be prudent to >>roll bac

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > As for flex, it looks > like the maintainers went AWOL again :( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and > 11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be prudent to > roll back to 2.5.4a? At least that one manages to get doxygen

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Does this imply that LFS will drop bison and flex? From chapter 5, certainly. If so, they will need to be added to BLFS. I would hope that they would be retained in Chapter 6 as they are a part of an overall development base. Well, I really don't mind keeping bison around. As

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Folks, > > I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: > > 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex Does this imply that LFS will drop bison and flex? If so, they will need to be added to BLFS. I would hope that they would be retained

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > So, does anyone think we should still stick with HJL binutils, and if > so, what are the compelling reasons for doing so? > I will be less than surprised if the multi-architecture book has to use HJL for some architectures, in the past HJL has alwa

Re: Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Jeremy Utley
Matthew Burgess wrote: Folks, I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex 2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose and fix 3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to speed with mode

Re: pickng at nits

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Peter Ennis wrote: Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20050428 Chapter 5. Constructing a Temporary System 5.15. Coreutils-5.2.1 make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check. NOTE: This command is all Bold, including the period. If you include the period then it does not belong inside the XML tag(?) as it is n

shells.html broken link

2005-05-15 Thread syaodzir
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware_source/ap/ash/ash-0.4.0.tar.gz should be ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware_source/ap/ash/ash-0.4.0.tar.gz (small l in linux) rgds -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev F

Move back to FSF binutils

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Folks, I'm proposing we stop tracking/using HJL's binutils. Here's my reasons: 1) It adds host dependencies of bison and flex 2) Recent bugs with HJL (stripping libc.a) have been hard to diagnose and fix 3) FSF recently released 2.16, bringing it back up to speed with modern features we were rel

Re: sysctl script at S90?

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Even the one-second wait could be reduced if there was a program that used directory-change notifications (inotify? maybe...) to sleep until a directory or file was created or modified, but I don't know of any such program. I'm fairly sure nothing like that is installed on a b

Re: sysctl script at S90?

2005-05-15 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Matthew Burgess wrote: > I'm hoping the dev.d scripts are all handled asynchrohously - i.e. > udev doesn't wait for one to complete before kicking off the next, > otherwise boot times might be significantly slowed down with all that > spinning. Uh oh. ;-) udev-056 does indeed wait for each of th

Re: sysctl script at S90?

2005-05-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bryan Kadzban wrote: I'm not sure what kind of machinery would be needed, but I made a simple dev.d script for rtc, to handle this case. Wonderful, thanks! Number one, it'll print an error to "somewhere" (syslog? udev's log? the system console? no idea) if your rtc module wasn't configured to suppo