Re: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: That just seems silly. Warn was much nicer and still allowed things to proceed. Can we not still warn, but just leave the exit status as '0'. The spec (from the quote given) doesn't appear to forbid output, it just mandates what the exit status should be. -- http://linuxfro

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Does LILO work for sparcs and/or MIPS machines? No bug Grub 2 is scheduled to support Sparc, x86, and ppc, but only as 32 bit. Currently none of the MIPS bootloaders that I'm familar with will boot a ELF64 object, arcboot and colo. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: LILO is reported to work for 64 bit. You don't seem to be acknowledging that since all I can see is talk of silo, colo, and grub. Does LILO work for sparcs and/or MIPS machines? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/f

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Archaic wrote: LILO is reported to work for 64 bit. You don't seem to be acknowledging that since all I can see is talk of silo, colo, and grub. Actually I don't want to add any packages. I have talked to some people that have actually built grub on a 64 bit architecture. But this still liv

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: I was having this problem for a while, I've been working with the Silo maintainer for a few weeks now, but there is no way to build a 64 bit silo. Colo for the raq2 MIPS and Grub, also seem to have this problem. I guess a 32 Bit loader is the unwritten law for bootloaders.

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:57:31PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > > I was having this problem for a while, I've been working with the Silo > maintainer for a few weeks now, but there is no way to build a 64 bit > silo. Colo for the raq2 MIPS and Grub, also seem to have this problem. I > guess a 32

Re: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-10 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:53:13AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > * > > running "start" on a service already running > * > > running "stop" on a service already stopped or not running That just seems silly. Warn was much nicer and still allowed things to proceed. -- Archaic Want

Re: Creating logs of builds (was - Re: Addition to Chapter 12)

2005-08-10 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:25:27AM +0100, Richard A Downing wrote: > > My way now is never to type the commands directly, but create a > scriptlet for each package built from a template that is essentially > Bruce's script plus some checks. And to take automation one step further, you could put B

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
John Miller wrote: I have only been a lurker on the list, but since I stirred up all the trouble over bootloaders with my thread I should probably say something. I used lilo for my pure 64 bit system and it built just fine. Since sometime towards the end of 2004 lilo no longer requires nasm

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately, but have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for all the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on a Pure 64 bit system. The only way I see to get around this is to

Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately, but have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for all the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on a Pure 64 bit system. The only way I see to get around this is to build some 32 bit to

Re: System clock hastening

2005-08-10 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: Any ideas? Yep, I just use ntp (see BLFS). My hardware clock seems to gain even Tried this and went for the first option mentioned in the BLFS-book: Option one is to run ntpd continuously and allow it to synchronize the time in a grad

Re: Grub 1.90

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Looks like it will only support 32 bit also, so we may have to change to lilo for pure 64 builds. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-08/msg00065.html -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

Corrupted files on Anduin

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas Pegg
While testing the new LFS LiveCD Makefile system, I ran across some corrupted files downloaded from anduin via ftp.lfs-matrix.net, but have confirmed that even downloading from anduin still results in corruption. The following files are affected: openssl-0.9.7g.tar.bz2 tcl-8.4.11.tar.bz2 tk-8.4.1

Re: Grub 1.90

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Matt, I decided to try this on my 586 test machine. I ran into a few issues. Issues cannnot find /usr/sbin/grub-mkimage Error line at 213 /usr/sbin/grub-install Only boots into grub-rescue Fixes cp /usr/bin/grub-install /usr/sbin/gru

Grub 1.90

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: Would you like to give grub-1.90 (grub-2.0 pre-release) a try for us all? :) Interesting Note GRUB depends on some software packages installed into your system. If you don't have any of them, please obtain and install them before configuring the GRUB. * GCC 2.95 or lat

Re: can't enter chroot environment

2005-08-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/10/05 11:32 CST: > Uggh, sorry! Stupid autocomplete on Thunderbird got the wrong list! Sure. Actually, it was just a sneaky way to get your message sent to another list. :-) You know, something you might consider. Several technical lists (newsgroups)

Re: can't enter chroot environment

2005-08-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Uggh, sorry! Stupid autocomplete on Thunderbird got the wrong list! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: can't enter chroot environment

2005-08-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Seth Payne wrote: chroot: cannot run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory Seth, I realise you've sorted your problem now, but I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind folks of our FAQ page, which just happens to answer this question and many more too. http://www.linuxfr

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Sure, I'll give it a shot. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: Someone has information on how to make grub work 64 bit, I hope to get that very soon. Would you like to give grub-1.90 (grub-2.0 pre-release) a try for us all? :) Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsub

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Someone has information on how to make grub work 64 bit, I hope to get that very soon. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: John Miller wrote: I have a question about the pure 64bit x86_64 bit book. During the installation of grub you use the following instruction: CC="gcc -m32 -static" ./configure --prefix=/usr However because this is a pure 64bit build their are no 32 bit libraries or the

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
John Miller wrote: I have a question about the pure 64bit x86_64 bit book. During the installation of grub you use the following instruction: CC="gcc -m32 -static" ./configure --prefix=/usr However because this is a pure 64bit build their are no 32 bit libraries or the capability for gcc to

RE: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-10 Thread David Fix
> Not now. 3.2.x went after partial LSB-2.1.0 compliancy to ease the > transition. See below from the spec. Ah, gotcha. :) Makes sense then. :) Thanks so much for your hard work, DJ. :) Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: BLFS 6.1 Branch

2005-08-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Torsten Vollmann wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Just out of curiosity or lack of understaning: > > The fix for the missing configure command in autofs was merged into -pre2 > but I can't see it in trunk. So, from where was it merged? My keyboard. :) Doing a svn merge doesn't really work because

Re: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-10 Thread DJ Lucas
David Fix wrote: Non-Technical explanation: I actually tested fully (I believe) and it works!!! :-D Well that looks better. ;) I'm still wondering, though, why: When I have a process not running (spamd in this case), and I do a "spamd stop", it still says, "[ OK ]". :D Shouldn't it say "/

Re: Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
John Miller wrote: I have a question about the pure 64bit x86_64 bit book. During the installation of grub you use the following instruction: CC="gcc -m32 -static" ./configure --prefix=/usr However because this is a pure 64bit build their are no 32 bit libraries or the capability for gcc to

RE: Creating logs of builds (was - Re: Addition to Chapter 12)

2005-08-10 Thread David Fix
> I've become rather fond on the style shown in Bruce's SBU pages: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/about.html > > it neatly gets you: > 1) a log > 2) the time it took recorded in the log > 3) a deeper understanding of how the shell works :-) Nice! :) Thanks! Dave -- ht

RE: LFS Bootscripts [SOLVED]

2005-08-10 Thread David Fix
> Non-Technical explanation: I actually tested fully (I believe) and it > works!!! :-D Well that looks better. ;) I'm still wondering, though, why: When I have a process not running (spamd in this case), and I do a "spamd stop", it still says, "[ OK ]". :D Shouldn't it say "/usr/bin/spamd is

Cross LFS Pure 64bit Book

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
I have a question about the pure 64bit x86_64 bit book. During the installation of grub you use the following instruction: CC="gcc -m32 -static" ./configure --prefix=/usr However because this is a pure 64bit build their are no 32 bit libraries or the capability for gcc to build 32 bit correct

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-10 Thread Ag Hatzim
Randy McMurchy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:11PM -0500: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/01/05 13:33 CST: > > I am now convinced that a branch for GCC4 in BLFS is not necessary. > There isn't that much that is going to be changed, and maintenance > of the branch would be a

Re: [RFC] ALFS implementations

2005-08-10 Thread Kev Buckley
> Right. One solution to that which I am interested in pursuing a bit more > is what I mentioned in alfs-discuss and what Greg Schafer has referred to > recently in another thread: extracting the commands from the book's XML > source. > > There have been others who have pursued this goal, ie, Bor