Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/19/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > After the error the other day with dash and glibc-2.3.6, > > I prefer to install bash and start all the bootscripts #!/bin/bash to > make it clear that anyone who wants to use another shell is on their > own. :-) Very

Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/19/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please install posh from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/posh/posh_0.5.4.tar.gz and test > whether it reveals any additional breakage? I'll take a look at it. Any background on posh? > > Second patch is just a t

Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/19/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > First patch is to eliminated "echo -[en]" since it's not always > > supported by POSIX shells. I chose to use printf since it was a > > builtin in dash. I didn't notice until later that it's not mentioned > > in POSIX.

Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: > After the error the other day with dash and glibc-2.3.6, I prefer to install bash and start all the bootscripts #!/bin/bash to make it clear that anyone who wants to use another shell is on their own. :-) R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: h

Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson пишет: > After the error the other day with dash and glibc-2.3.6, I decided to > install dash[1] and give it a whirl as /bin/sh. Things went mostly > pretty well with respect to rogue bashisms throughout the system. I've > attached some patches to fix up the bootscripts while consulti

Re: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > First patch is to eliminated "echo -[en]" since it's not always > supported by POSIX shells. I chose to use printf since it was a > builtin in dash. I didn't notice until later that it's not mentioned > in POSIX. And the executable printf is in /usr/bin. We can maintain > th

Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant

2007-02-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
After the error the other day with dash and glibc-2.3.6, I decided to install dash[1] and give it a whirl as /bin/sh. Things went mostly pretty well with respect to rogue bashisms throughout the system. I've attached some patches to fix up the bootscripts while consulting the POSIX spec on shells[

Various issues with the book

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Staub
1. Perhaps it should be made somewhat clearer that the "Linux-Headers" installation comes from the kernel tarball. More than one user has come into the IRC chat asking if it was the CLFS "Linux-Headers" package. 2. The toolchain-adjustment section says that you can edit the specs file by hand,