Glibc-2.6.1/2.5.1

2007-07-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
Jakub Jelinek is going to release glibc-2.6.1 soon and says he will also release 2.5.1 if there's demand. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2007-07/msg00045.html I've just committed a new patch from upstream's 2.5 branch that I'll push into the book.

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jon Fullmer wrote: When putting this system for a non-x86 (PowerPC, to be specific), I noticed that this setup is actually wrong. You may want to check out http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ for the PowerPC. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools@g' \

Re: JDK version 6

2007-07-12 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, This is mostly to DJ, but FYI to everyone else, with comments welcome. I'd like to propose that we ditch 3 of the JDK patches and use seds instead. Additionally, I modified the GCC4 patch to do the following: 1. Remove the fix to the assembly as it is now

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
I don't understand. I'm aware of CLFS (and even for the PowerPC). This is assuming I want to build a system on a platform other than its destined platform. I'm actually building it on a PowerPC box running LFS-6.2. That's not the point. The reason I mentioned that I was doing this on

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Greg Schafer
Jon Fullmer wrote: I don't understand. Jon, LFS is targeted at x86 and therefore the instructions are only tested there and not guaranteed to work on other arches. I've done ppc builds myself and can confirm that specs files do indeed differ per arch and GCC version. Of course, even the *name*

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Fullmer
On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Greg Schafer wrote: I've done ppc builds myself and can confirm that specs files do indeed differ per arch and GCC version. Of course, even the *name* of the dynamic linker is different for ppc. THAT'S what I wanted to know. Yes, I know that x86 uses

Re: SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

2007-07-12 Thread William Harrington
On Jul 12, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Jon Fullmer wrote: Gentlemen, Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this, so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry. Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently to generate the specs file: gcc -dumpspecs |