Chapter 6 Texinfo - what is "TeX"?

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Staub
The installation instructions for Texinfo give an "optional" step for a "TeX" installation, but it doesn't say why you would need it or what programs might require it. Some kind of additional description should be there (even if it's nothing more than "if you don't know what it is, you don't it

Re: Need input on recommendation for introduction to programming tools

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Staub
William Harrington wrote: Hello everybody, After the last few days of intense toolchain errors and other chap5 to chap6 anomalies coming into the support channels, I was talking to a few people about having something in the book to introduce programming tools to people. My thought goes as

Re: GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Staub
Matthew Burgess wrote: Chris Staub wrote: and in section 5.6. Glibc-2.3.5 it mentions kernel 2.6.11 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/gcc4/chapter05/glibc.html It also says that in the development book. Should that be "2.6.11.x or later"? Yep, this as with many other things are o

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

2005-08-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Andy Neebel wrote: > > I haven't been able to do LFS on my tower for a while, but I know that > I had grub building in 64bit on it once. I have an x86_64, and iirc, > grub 0.93 didn't like 64bit, but 0.94 did. That's about the newest > grub that I have used as I haven't had

Re: New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:10:11PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > > Please join me in welcoming Ken Moffat to the LFS development team. > > Thanks to the people who've welcomed me, hope I prove worthy of it. A little late, but welcome aboard :) -- JH

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ag Hatzim wrote these words on 08/10/05 04:15 CST: > Log of the already installed packages attached,most of them confirmed to work > > libxml2-2.6.20 This is odd. LibXML2 crapped out for me during the 'make'. runtest.o: In function `xpathDocTest': /home/rml/build/libxml2-2.6.20/runtest.c:2404: u

Re: New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Please join me in welcoming Ken Moffat to the LFS development team. Thanks to the people who've welcomed me, hope I prove worthy of it. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

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

2005-08-12 Thread Andy Neebel
On 8/10/05, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 hav

RE: New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread David Fix
> Please join me in welcoming Ken Moffat to the LFS development > team. _ _ _ _ | | | |___| |___ ___ _ ___ | | | | -_| | _| . | | -_| |_|___|_|___|___|_|_|_|___| __ _| | | | |___ ___| | |-| -_| |__|

Re: New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread Jim Gifford
Welcome aboard Ken, I look forward to your assistance. -- -- [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: New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 12 de Agosto de 2005 20:18, Matthew Burgess escribió: > Hi folks, > > Please join me in welcoming Ken Moffat to the LFS development team. Ken > has been a long time contributor to both the development and support > communities, and his knowledge and dedication to the project are certai

New LFS Developer

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, Please join me in welcoming Ken Moffat to the LFS development team. Ken has been a long time contributor to both the development and support communities, and his knowledge and dedication to the project are certain to be beneficial to the project. Welcome on board Ken! Regards, M

Re: MySQL Test Suite

2005-08-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/12/05 11:22 CST: > 4.1.13a? > > Where does this come from? There is no mention of it on the MySQL > web site, or BLFS. Never mind. I found it. Apparently, there are MySQL web mirrors that are not synced up. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 2

Re: MySQL Test Suite

2005-08-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 08/12/05 11:16 CST: > Yes. I tested that 4.1.13a builds and tests with the book's > instructions earlier this week, prior to filing bug 1515. 4.1.13a? Where does this come from? There is no mention of it on the MySQL web site, or BLFS. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU

Re: GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: and in section 5.6. Glibc-2.3.5 it mentions kernel 2.6.11 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/gcc4/chapter05/glibc.html It also says that in the development book. Should that be "2.6.11.x or later"? Yep, this as with many other things are on that TODO list I spoke o

Re: (small) bug in blfs 6.1

2005-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexandre Russel wrote: > Hi > In the following page, the first link starts with lots of ../../..(but the > target is good) > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.1/introduction/bootscripts.html > regards That is correct. It is that way to accomodate the mirrors. -- Bruce -- http://li

Re: GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Staub
Andrew Benton wrote: Chris Staub wrote: The GCC4 book hasn't been touched in over a week, and in that time there have been several changes to the development trunk that haven't been applied to GCC4. This includes... 1. Update of Vim security patch 2. Suggestion to add cracklib to Shadow inst

Re: GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Benton
Chris Staub wrote: The GCC4 book hasn't been touched in over a week, and in that time there have been several changes to the development trunk that haven't been applied to GCC4. This includes... 1. Update of Vim security patch 2. Suggestion to add cracklib to Shadow installation 3. text change

Re: GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/12/05 09:39 CST: > The GCC4 book hasn't been touched in over a week, and in that time there > have been several changes to the development trunk that haven't been > applied to GCC4. This includes... There is only one guy working on this branch and he has admit

GCC4 book needs to be updated

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Staub
The GCC4 book hasn't been touched in over a week, and in that time there have been several changes to the development trunk that haven't been applied to GCC4. This includes... 1. Update of Vim security patch 2. Suggestion to add cracklib to Shadow installation 3. text changes to the Shadow inst