Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jim Gifford
Archaic wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: What about when you build on x86 for a different platform then chroot is not an option at all. That's the reason we added that to the book. For that I would suggest a livecd. How exotic must we get? Would

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/27/05 01:48 CST: Would be great, but the RaQ series and few other designs don't have the ability to boot from a cdrom.That's why I'm persuing a method that is a little easier for people to work with on all systems. NFS root booting. This is the future of

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Ryan . Oliver
Archaic wrote: For that I would suggest a livecd. How exotic must we get? Depends on what you are building for. All well and good if your target actually has a cdrom, and there actually is a livecd for your target platform... Most of my sparc32's don't have a cdrom, and neither does my

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:28:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on what you are building for. All well and good if your target actually has a cdrom, and there actually is a livecd for your target platform... Most of my sparc32's don't have a cdrom, and neither does my arm

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
R.Quenett wrote these words on 05/27/05 09:15 CST: Pardon me for butting in here but, to me in my ignorance, the one benefit that would justify (again, to me - I'm not trying to speak for anyone else) almost anything would be the 'purity of the build' (which I understand to mean the new

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
TheOldFellow wrote: I must start by saying that I have not been interested enough in this thread to have read every contribution in detail. Having built a couple of POX86S (plain old X86 system) with cross-lfs instructions, I've decided to take a copy of the latest svn non-cross-lfs book and

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
R.Quenett wrote: Pardon me for butting in here but, to me in my ignorance, the one benefit that would justify (again, to me - I'm not trying to speak for anyone else) almost anything would be the 'purity of the build' (which I understand to mean the new build containing as close to zero as

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: I asked a very similar question a while back. After pressing the issue, the answer was that for x86 builds, you end up with the same thing regardless which build method you use. Note, however, this only applies to non-cross builds. I'm sorry, I must have missed this one.

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
TheOldFellow wrote: The increased complexity of the cross-lfs method has zero benefit in x86 AFAICS. I'm not saying that cross-lfs isn't a great bit of work, it's just that I don't see that it has any application to 95% of folk building LFS for the first time, and the 5% who need a cross

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:52:32AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would also point out that the cross build method is necessary only once per architecture. One you have a system built on a specific arctitecture, a user can revert to the current method for a subsequent build. Once a user can

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread TheOldFellow
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Increased complexity? For x86 - x86, I'm not sure I see it that way. Let's break it down a bit. In the 5.x-6.x books, chapter 5, for your toolchain, you built gcc 4 times, right? (static build we run 'make bootstrap' with is more or less equal to 3 builds of gcc) Now,

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
TheOldFellow wrote: We often (once a year or so) have a debate in LFS circles to decide if those who want to try experimental stuff should be in the forefront, or whether we should be trying to get a perfect book for newbies to build with. The answer is a compromise, always was, always will be.

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread TheOldFellow
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: It would be interesting/nice to hear Gerard's take on this issue at this time. Esp. considering that he still holds copyright on all this stuff. Gerard who? I think there used to be someone called Gerard around here once, long ago... R. --

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:52:32AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would also point out that the cross build method is necessary only once per architecture. One you have a system built on a specific arctitecture, a user can revert to the current method for a subsequent build. Once

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 27 de Mayo de 2005 16:52, Archaic escribió: Attempts to support building where host!=target is hints territory as there are just too many variables for a linear based book to contend with. That's also my point. In resumen: Cross-build techniques are good. To reboot using the

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jim Gifford
M.Canales.es wrote: In resumen: Cross-build techniques are good. To reboot using the temp tools is good, noticing that when host(machine+arch)=target(machine+arch) we can to use the old chroot way, if dessired. To try to solve the question How can I boot my target machine when

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 27 de Mayo de 2005 21:08, Jim Gifford escribió: http://documents.jg555.com/cross-lfs/x86/reboot/whatnext.html, Object not found But reading the XML file, that look sensible to me. Thanks. -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Gnumeric

2005-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/27/05 14:11 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: Thanks, David, for the report. I received private email from a Gnumeric developer in response to my original message (one wonders how he found the message, unless he monitors this list) If not a subscription,

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Has it been shown that the current method has leaks from the build system into the new LFS system? If so, I'm not aware of them. Can you point to anything specific? If you use a host with new binutils (2.15.x), but are building old binutils (2.14 was what was current when

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: If you use a host with new binutils (2.15.x), but are building old binutils (2.14 was what was current when this issue came up), then after you install the old binutils, linking won't work anymore. gcc's specs file uses --as-needed, because 2.15.x supported it, but the ld

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Thanks for the case-in-point, Byran. Was the SE-Linux afflicted FC3 distro also because of host infection, or was that down to incorrect instructions? Basically what was happening was that (I think) glibc was being built in chapter 5 against the host's se-linux

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Was the SE-Linux afflicted FC3 distro also because of host infection, or was that down to incorrect instructions? Basically what was happening was that (I think) glibc was being built in chapter 5 against the host's se-linux stuff. When we were chrooted in chapter 6,

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-27 Thread Greg Schafer
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Increased complexity? For x86 - x86, I'm not sure I see it that way. You have to be kidding, right? Everyone around here has obviously forgotten what it's like to be a newbie. I'll repeat what I've stated in the past: - the greatest thing about LFS is that newbies can

RaQ2 build instructions

2005-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I just finished rendering the cross-lfs book, as I tried to go to the link Jim provided, but as Manuel pointed out, it is a bad URL. Anyway, browsing through the books, I noticed that the RaQ2 build instructions include building OpenSSL and OpenSSH. I must have missed this discussion

Re: RaQ2 build instructions

2005-05-27 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:11:10PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Anyway, browsing through the books, I noticed that the RaQ2 build instructions include building OpenSSL and OpenSSH. I must have missed this discussion totally, as I don't remember a thing about adding these packages to LFS. Can