Re: Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-02 Thread Richard A Downing
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:51:01 -0500 Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just looking for ways to reduce the temp-system in /tools as much > as possible. I've built LFS systems before without having ncurses > there and it works fine. I believe the only issue is texinfo - many > programs in

Re: Essential Symlinks: Explainations

2006-01-02 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 1/1/06, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > Additionally, the libgcc_s.so symlink is not needed. Only the > > libgcc_s.so.1 is needed so that glibc can dlopen that library (used in > > nptl). > > Are you sure? It found the libgcc_s in /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-l

Re: Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: Well, the text about the "internationalization-related hints" is what was already there. Also, can't the BLFS page describe locale (not just UTF-8) issues with LFS packages as well? Or should that be in LFS? Fixing LFS-related issues is the point of the UTF-8 patch. -- Alex

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2006-01-02 Thread Greg Schafer
Dan Nicholson wrote: > OK, round 2 here. I made a couple changes, some of which were just > guesses and haven't affected anything. bison, perl, vim, nscd are > still causing problems. Looks pretty good. I'm pretty sure you'll find perl, vim and nscd are different due to timestamps embedded into

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2006-01-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/23/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done an ICA/Farce report on the LFS Alphabetical branch. OK, round 2 here. I made a couple changes, some of which were just guesses and haven't affected anything. bison, perl, vim, nscd are still causing problems. A minimal changelog

Re: Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Chris Staub wrote these words on 01/02/06 14:51 CST: I'm just looking for ways to reduce the temp-system in /tools as much as possible. I've built LFS systems before without having ncurses there and it works fine. I believe the only issue is texinfo - many programs in cha

Re: Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Chris Staub wrote: Note: this would also necessitate removing "more" from the chap. 5 util-linux, but AFAIK nothing in chap. 6 needs it - it's just there for the user's convenience (though I never need it myself). IMHO removing more is a bad idea. Anyway, what's the big

Re: Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-02 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 01/02/06 14:51 CST: > I'm just looking for ways to reduce the temp-system in /tools as much as > possible. I've built LFS systems before without having ncurses there and > it works fine. I believe the only issue is texinfo - many programs in > chapter 6 need it t

Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Staub
I'm just looking for ways to reduce the temp-system in /tools as much as possible. I've built LFS systems before without having ncurses there and it works fine. I believe the only issue is texinfo - many programs in chapter 6 need it to build their info pages, but I believe they only need the "

Re: Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Chris Staub wrote: -To save time, an alternative to running the -previous command (which generates and installs every locale listed in the -glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED file) is to install only those -locales that are wanted and needed. This can be

Re: Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Chris Staub wrote: @@ -168,7 +162,7 @@ installed only for GCC and Gettext tests to pass, and the watch program (part of the Procps package) does not work properly in them. Various attempts to circumvent these restrictions are -documented in internationalization

Re: Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: @@ -168,7 +162,7 @@ installed only for GCC and Gettext tests to pass, and the watch program (part of the Procps package) does not work properly in them. Various attempts to circumvent these restrictions are -documented in internationalization-related hints. +documented in i

Re: Various minor changes to the book

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: -To save time, an alternative to running the -previous command (which generates and installs every locale listed in the -glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED file) is to install only those -locales that are wanted and needed. This can be achieved by using the -localedef