Re: gawk-3.1.4 and glibc-2.3.5: broken combination?

2005-07-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bernard Leak wrote: After correcting a silly mistake (which led to me using the wrong glibc) I still see the problem I reported earlier. Bernard, What locale are you using (i.e. what do your LC_* and LANG look like)? Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ

Re: 6.1 and Development "Acronyms and Terms" page

2005-07-05 Thread Chris Staub
Chris Staub wrote: Archaic wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:33:23PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: "SBU" is still referred to as "Static Binutils Unit". Thanks. Fixed. Almost. :) It's no longer "static". Never mind - I just saw Matthew's message stating that this is fixed as well. :)

Re: gawk-3.1.4 and glibc-2.3.5: broken combination?

2005-07-05 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear List, before I spread any more confusion: my last message was entirely wrong. Grovelling apologies. After correcting a silly mistake (which led to me using the wrong glibc) I still see the problem I reported earlier. That is, building LFS-6.1-pre1 but with glibc-2.3.5 rather th

Re: 6.1 and Development "Acronyms and Terms" page

2005-07-05 Thread Chris Staub
Archaic wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:33:23PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: "SBU" is still referred to as "Static Binutils Unit". Thanks. Fixed. Almost. :) It's no longer "static". -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ U

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-05 Thread Nathan Coulson
On 7/5/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > > > AFAICT, there is no easy way to do hexadecimal expansion in ashI > > don't think it's worth fixing. > > I believe the "customary" way is to use bc for arithmetic. Of course > that introduces a dependency. > > Personal

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
steve crosby wrote: Something onlong the lines of this: http://nontroppo.org/test/tab1.html Just a thought tho ;) That's nice. I really like it. :) However, I'm not sure if we should go about changing what we have on beta. For my own personal site there's a *lot* of design elements that I w

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > AFAICT, there is no easy way to do hexadecimal expansion in ashI > don't think it's worth fixing. I believe the "customary" way is to use bc for arithmetic. Of course that introduces a dependency. Personally, I don't see a good reason not to use bash. I know its been disc

Re: Failure when building /binutils (Chapter 5 on FC4 with gcc4)

2005-07-05 Thread Peter Ennis
You need to use binutils-2.16 and it gets past the gas error. I am building on FC4/Rawhide => FC5 Yeah, glutton for punishment :-) PFE -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gawk-3.1.4 and glibc-2.3.5: broken combination?

2005-07-05 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:29:19AM +0100, Bernard Leak wrote: > >Evidently the problem is not exposed in this > set-up, though I have applied none of the specific > patches to gawk which are (also) supposed to > eliminate the problem. Whether that means the > problem has "gone away" or not I

Re: gawk-3.1.4 and glibc-2.3.5: broken combination?

2005-07-05 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear List, apologies for the delay. This is just reassurance, confirming what others have reported. And, again, apologies for the broken threading. I've just done a clean blfs-6.1-pre1 build, with no changes except (a) adding a few languages to the GCC build (the easy way o

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote: > > Oh, and you can make the menu selections look more like "tabs" using > > CSS with relative ease. > > Sure. :) But again, the look is intentional. Out of curiosity, what did > you have in mind there? > Something on

AW: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Palm
Hey, really a nice and clearly structured new website layout. Really an improvement and I like it very much. In my opinion you can navigate much more intuitively, now. Regards, Robert -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jeremy Huntwor

Re: compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Roberto Nibali wrote: > I really think it's a problem of that missing linux-gate.so.1, It's "provided" by the kernel, though, I think. I get the same output from ldd, and my system works. > The $LFS was built with a SuSE 9.3 host system, maybe this is an > issue. Possibly. Which kernel does t

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Matthew Burgess wrote: Ahmed El-Daly wrote: Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Yep, and they'll be fixed even sooner if you would be so kind to specify exactly *which* links are broken :)

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2005-07-05 Thread Bankim Shikari.IIT DELHI
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Re: 6.1 and Development "Acronyms and Terms" page

2005-07-05 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:33:23PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > "SBU" is still referred to as "Static Binutils Unit". Thanks. Fixed. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfrom

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ahmed El-Daly wrote: Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Yep, and they'll be fixed even sooner if you would be so kind to specify exactly *which* links are broken :) Regards, Matt. -- http

Re: xi:include tags in the cross-lfs book

2005-07-05 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 5 de Julio de 2005 08:39, Alexander E. Patrakov escribió: > I think that the biggest trouble is that xpointer expressions include > some meaningless offset numbers like para[2] instead of assigning a > meaningful name to the exact text to be copied to another page. The more simplest wa

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
steve crosby wrote: For those of us with high resolution screens, it's also a fair distance to move the mouse ;) When I work on a high-resolution screen, I avoid maximizing browser windows. If I maximize a browser window, lines of text become more than 66 characters long and therefore difficu

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Ahmed El-Daly
Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Any chance of changing the search engine too? I find that it is not very accurate and that the way it highlights the search terms makes it hard to read the res

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: Hmm... :) I think, really, that the logo on the "old" site, with the soft drop-shadows and the way the menu highlights give it the look... :) I think that the menu highlights just need a little "3d'ing" to give them that edge. :) *shrug* Perhaps I'm just used to the old o

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Russell
On 7/5/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux > From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now > nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new > sit

RE: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread David Fix
> What do you think would make it look "polished"? > > -- > JH Hmm... :) I think, really, that the logo on the "old" site, with the soft drop-shadows and the way the menu highlights give it the look... :) I think that the menu highlights just need a little "3d'ing" to give them that edge. :)

[RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:21, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to see this new > design implemented

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: Well, if my two cents is worth anything... It looks GREAT. :) Not "polished" like the old site, but the layout is certainly more intuitive and easier to follow! What do you think would make it look "polished"? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev F

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
steve crosby wrote: Clean, and good looking Thank you. - just one question. Was it a concious choice to make the top menu right justified? For most languages, reading from left to right is the norm, and the right justified menus seem "odd". For those of us with high resolution screens, it's

Re: Hello and such :)

2005-07-05 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On July 5, 2005 01:22 am, Jim Gifford wrote: > Gerard, I have a few 1U cases I can get my hands on. I'd have to check to make sure the hardware I have here will actually fit in a 1U case. Some of the hardware that was donated a while ago is in standard desktop configuration (mostly the motherboa

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to see this new > design implemente

RE: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread David Fix
> Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) > and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We > would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to > see this new > design implemented. > > http://beta.linuxfromscratch.org/ >

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Shane Shields
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello Everyone: The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new site was to produce a simple and readable

RE: Hello and such :)

2005-07-05 Thread David Fix
> NOOO :) Those things are pitifully slow. Not to mention things > have to be done quite differently on mips boxes. Actually, they have Intel/AMD architecture too. ;) And they're pretty inexpensive. :D Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 08:21 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux > From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now > nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new

[RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello Everyone: The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new site was to produce a simple and readable site that is easy to nav

Re: compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-05 Thread Roberto Nibali
>>chroot("/var/tmp/LFS") = 0 >>chdir("/") = 0 >>execve("/tools/bin/env", ["/tools/bin/env", "-i", "HOME=/root", "TERM=linux", >>"PS1=\\u:\\w\\$ ", "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sb"..., "/tools/bin/bash", >>"--login", "+h"], [/* 71 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT

Re: compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-05 Thread John Profic
Roberto Nibali wrote: I've worked through the LFS-dev book (SVN-20050702) and I am stuck with the following problem: # chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i \ HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ /tools/bin/bash --login +h chroot: cannot

Re: compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Roberto Nibali wrote: > chroot("/var/tmp/LFS") = 0 > chdir("/") = 0 > execve("/tools/bin/env", ["/tools/bin/env", "-i", "HOME=/root", "TERM=linux", > "PS1=\\u:\\w\\$ ", "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sb"..., "/tools/bin/bash", > "--login", "+h"], [/* 71

compilation ok, chroot fails

2005-07-05 Thread Roberto Nibali
Hello, I've worked through the LFS-dev book (SVN-20050702) and I am stuck with the following problem: # chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i \ > HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ > /tools/bin/bash --login +h chroot: cannot run comman

Re: Hello and such :)

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Gifford
Gerard Beekmans wrote: On July 2, 2005 11:16 am, Robert Connolly wrote: Maybe someone knows a friendly isp who will adjust charges month to month based on usage. Also, it would be a nice kick if the server was a legal non-profit company, maybe some sort of charity, so that contributions coul